Flood Call 1928

Woman inquiring about bringing a bus load of volunteers to help with the sandbagging.She is given the number and directed to call the Emergency Operation Center. Next- A caller trying to reach Tom Murphy to report a resident in her hotel smoking pot. She is asked to call back in about 30 minutes as all officers are assisting in evacuating Lincoln Drive.

Date April 18th 1997, 8:43 pm
Duration 52 seconds
Channel 24
Direction incoming call
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Police Department, can you hold?
Yes.
Police Department, can you hold?
Yes.
Thank you.
Thanks for holding.
Yes. Could you tell me if we brought a busload of kids down on Sunday,
would it help with the sandbagging?
It may help. Just a second, please.
Police Department, please hold.
Hi.
Police Department, please hold.
Okay, this is about the bus?
Yes.
Okay, I'm going to give you the number to the sandbagging operations, okay?
Okay.
775-8661.
8661?
Yep, or call 775-0671.
0671.
Okay.
Thanks.
Yep.
Thanks for holding. Can I help you?
Hi. Is Tom Murphy, who's with his task force, around?
He's out in his vehicle getting some people evacuated.
Oh, okay. Is that where everybody is?
Yep, they're all evacuating residents.
Okay.
Okay, I'm running a motel full of people that have been evacuated.
Okay.
And I've got a couple of people that have been evacuated.
Okay.
And I've got a couple of people that have been evacuated.
Okay.
And I've got a couple of people that have been evacuated.
Okay.
And I've got a guy here from Minneapolis that's really smoking pot upstairs.
And I don't know what to do about it.
And it doesn't seem like a major problem right now, except that we've got all these flood evacuates.
Oh, yeah, I can understand that.
Tell you what, let us get some of the situation under control.
Can you give us a call back in about a half hour?
Sure.
Because we just had some dike area that we have to get cleared out right now.
Where is that?
Some of the Lincoln Drive area.
Oh, okay.
Still, and it's coming further, so we have to get those evacuates.
Okay.