Flood Call 1293

Interdepartmental Meeting: Conversation about leaving the 911 center due to flooding.

Date	April 19th 1997, 1:05 am
Duration	135 seconds
Channel	23
Direction	outgoing call
Abstract By
Tagged As	Emergency Operations Center (EOC) personal call evacuation Grand Forks Police Department (GFPD) Red River High School shelters shuttle bus meeting

Transcript

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Maybe I can get a hold of the media and tell them that the phone lines have gone down to call 9-1-1 and state radio can contact us.
But state radio is calling us.
State radio is calling us.
I'll give them my cell phone. We have one cell phone. I can give them our cell phone number and have them call here.
Any of the UND phones working at all?
And we have state 3. So that's the problem. Nothing's working.
We have one cell phone and we have state 3.
We're better off staying here until the water comes in and they have to take us out with them.
You know, on these.
Why is that better?
Because you've only got one phone. We've at least got three.
Well, we also have the radio, though.
We have state 3 so we can communicate with them by radio.
But you only have one phone.
Yes.
But state radio could tell us over the radio.
We've been getting two or three calls from them at a time, though.
They're giving us all back the 9-1-1 hang-ups that they can't handle and I've got to, you know, take care of all of those.
We're going to have to go around a piece again and have, I mean, we've, you know.
Okay. Can I get, are you able to contact the EOC out there at all?
No. We're going to run up there. What do you need us to tell them?
Okay. First off, there's four buses.
Two are at Red River. Two are downtown. They're ready to evacuate people.
You can contact Liz on her mobile phone. It's 780-7673.
Okay.
And REM with all of the handicapped people.
They have 15 people at different locations that they need to evacuate.
You need to call Carrie at 772-5211.
Okay.
Let me check here for you and see if I've got.
Okay. They need, they need to fill buses so he needs to call Liz and he needs to call Carrie.
He needs to call this Liz because they're available. I mean, they can go help out REM if they need them.
They just need to know, right now they've got two buses by Red River and two downtown.
Just need to know where to go and these people at REM are waiting for evacuation help.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay. Wait a minute. I'm not supposed to hang up with you.
That's fine.
Okay. I guess that's all I've got at this point. Okay?
Okay. I'm going to run this up to ELC.
Okay. Wait a minute. Bob has to talk to you too.
Okay.
All right. You can go back on it.