Flood Call 1564
The operator called Emergency Operations Center to convey information on where sandbaggers are needed. The volunteers had been sent to the 4600 block of Cherry, when they were supposed to go to the 4600 block of Belmont. There were approximately 100 sandbaggers and a bus from the University of North Dakota. Tom, with the EOC, was confused why they had been dispatched in the first place, as he was responsible for coordinating the dispatching of volunteers and he had not sent the buses there.
| Date | April 18th 1997, 7:45 pm |
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| Duration | 167 seconds |
| Channel | 24 |
| Direction | outgoing call |
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Transcript
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Okay, you need to talk to Tom, hang on.
Hi this is the PD upstairs.
Oscar LaHayes has some sandbaggers that were dispatched to 4600 Cherry Street.
4600 Cherry?
Yeah.
I didn't dispatch anybody to 4600 Cherry.
Oh, where did you dispatch them to?
4600 Belmont.
Oh, they're in the wrong place then.
Yeah, like last week.
Okay, how many are there, do you know?
No, that's okay.
Can I use the radio or are you going to send assist?
Okay.
Dispatch?
Yeah.
Is there a unit with them?
Yup.
How'd the unit tell them to stand fast and I'll get a bus down there if you'll let me
know how many we've got?
Okay.
We are going to make a lot of commands.
If we can, there will be some gateway at 1220.
20 and 150?
20, sorry.
10-4, 632-20.
650 said he'll escort you to the gateway.
10-4, 632-20.
How many do you have there?
There was about a hundred of them.
About a hundred of them in a UND bus.
In a UND bus?
Yeah.
So you didn't send them to us?
No, I didn't send them to us.
Okay.
So they'll need another bus.
Is the bus empty?
I would guess.
No, they have a bus of a hundred sandbakers.
10-4.
At 46 St. Cherry.
Oh, you have a bus of...
10-4, 10-23.
So do they need a ride or what?
No, he doesn't know what to do with them.
He doesn't know why they were sent there.
Okay.
Let me put you back on hold.
Let me go back on hold.
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I'll start the phone.
Okay.
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I'll start the phone.
Let me go back to my phone.
Okay.
Okay.
Let me find out what they've done.
Who they've done with.
Okay.
I haven't talked to them.
They haven't talked to us in...
I don't know.
I think I woke up at 4 this morning and told to come home.
How much was it, 54, 7?
It took 50.
I don't know what's going on.
I sent a group down to 543 Terrace Drive from UND, but that was to pick them up.
Okay.
To take them back to UND.
Okay.
So, what did they do to 46th and Cherry?
He said they got dispatched over the radio to go to 46th and Cherry.
Not by me, and I'm the only one dispatching, except for UND, and they coordinate with me
on all dispatch.
Okay.
So, do they need to go to 46th and Belmont?
Do you need them there?
Or no?
No, I don't.
I don't know who dispatched them.
Do you need them anywhere?
Well, let's see.
Since they're already out there...
Can you call him?
You see, if there's a bus, that should be about 50 people.
Well, he said there's about 100 of them there.
They must have a couple of buses, huh?
They must have a couple of buses.
Or maybe he's exaggerating.
Could be that too.
Yeah, 2424.
2424.
2424.
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2424.
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2424.
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2424 Olson Drive.
Since they're down that way.
Okay.
I'll send them that way.
Okay.
Thank you.
Yeah, bye.