Flood Call 1459

Sergeant Rasmussen from East Grand Forks asking to be connected to make a media announcement by Mayor Lynn Stauss, who began to state they were going to sound the sirens to get help before being cut off.

Date	April 18th 1997, 5:36 am
Duration	56 seconds
Channel	24
Direction	incoming call
Abstract By
Tagged As	sirens news reporters and media Lynn Stauss (East Grand Forks Mayor) East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Transcript

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This is dispatch.
This is dispatch.
Dispatch.
This is Sergeant Rasmussen, Eastside.
Yup.
And we were trying to hook Mayor Stos up at the bat corner to make a media announcement.
Hang on a second.
We got lost the last time we were put on hold.
Okay.
Hang on.
Okay.
Is your mayor on the line?
He's right here next to me.
Okay.
Hang on.
Hang on.
Hang on.
Okay.
Hang on a second.
We're going to connect you.
Okay.
Okay.
Mayor Stos, you're on.
This is Mayor Stos.
We're going to sound our siren because we want to wake the people up and to alert them
that we need help to get out inside.