Flood Call 1491

A caller trying to reach Emergency Operations Center and engineering. Dispatcher also relays to EOC staff about question regarding National Guard pumps, a group of sandbag volunteers needing transport back to sandbag central, and the original caller trying to reach engineering.

Date	April 18th 1997, 7:07 pm
Duration	114 seconds
Channel	24
Direction	incoming call
Abstract By
Tagged As	Emergency Operations Center (EOC) sandbagging Grand Forks Engineering Department North Dakota National Guard volunteers pumps

Transcript

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Come on forth. Come on forth from center.
Uh, who's that, DLC?
No, it's the police department.
Oh, the police department?
Yeah, you must've been...
I need to talk with engineering.
Okay, hold on.
Hello?
Hello?
Hello?
Hello?
Hello?
Hello?
Hi, I have a couple of things.
Um, the National Guard has four pumps.
They don't know if they've been forgotten about or not.
They don't know where they're supposed to take them.
National Guard four pumps?
Mm-hmm, and I have a phone number to contact them.
Okay.
795-3853.
3853?
Mm-hmm, a load of sandbakers is ready to go back to Sandbag Central at 543 Terrace Drive.
543 Terrace?
Uh-huh, and Line 3 needs to talk to an engineer.
Huh, we need more phones.
Yes, we do.
Line 3 for engineers?
Yep.
Okay.
And that's all I have so far.
Okay.
Okay?
Alright, thanks.
Sergeant Cromy is trying to find someone for you, okay?
Alright, how about Charles Grody?
He's right in the other room there.
Okay, this is upstairs dispatch.
Oh, how did you guys get this?
All the lines are rolling over to us.
Oh, oh, alright.
It'll be just a second.
Alright, thanks.
Thanks.