Flood Call 1888
A caller trying to reach Emergency Operations Center and was informed of the flooding conditions on Elmwood Drive. A second caller is calling to get in touch with the street department about water that is waist deep on the on ramp that goes under the DeMers overpass.
| Date | April 18th 1997, 10:46 pm |
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| Duration | 109 seconds |
| Channel | 24 |
| Direction | incoming call |
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Transcript
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Is there any way I can find out what the condition is of Elmwood Drive?
We're recommending people be prepared to evacuate. Hold on just a second.
Wrong person, Center. Can you hold? Yes.
Communications. Yeah, I just had a question here. I'm a resident of 823 4th Avenue South.
Mm-hmm. And the, uh, under, over the Demers Overpass, that exit, the road that goes underneath. Mm-hmm.
Do you have any plans to close that? I don't know. Okay, because it's like waist-deep now and we've been out there pushing cars out of there left and right.
Okay, the odds are they're probably not going to have enough signs to be able to do anything. We're, so people, we've been warning people to watch the water.
If you can call back in about 10 or 15 minutes. Yeah, because I've been trying to tell people not to go through there. Okay.
There's almost been a couple accidents there. The Emergency Operations Center hopefully will be open by then. Okay.
And you can get that information to them and they can contact the street department. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Bye.
Okay, sir, you're about Elmwood Drive? Yeah. As of right now, I don't know exactly what the condition is.
I'm assuming that there's at least water down there, if not a lot.
Okay, because I know that there is somebody in one of those houses and I know there's no power in the house, so I don't know if you guys know the people in there.
Okay, that area may have already been told to evacuate. I'm not exactly sure. Okay.
But they, hopefully, I'm not exactly sure what the situation is down in that area.
Is there anybody that I could contact that would know? If you can call back probably about 10 more minutes, hopefully the Emergency Operations Center will be open.
Okay. They've been evacuated. I'll get back to you in 15 minutes. Okay. Thank you.