Flood Call 271
Caller asked if she should evacuate from her apartment above a studio downtown. The dispatcher explained the details of the voluntary evacuation. The dispatcher explained that the EOC would have more information, but their phones were down and would not be up for another 20 minutes.
| Date | April 19th 1997, 12:06 am |
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| Duration | 142 seconds |
| Channel | 25 |
| Direction | incoming call |
| Abstract By | Lucas Amundson |
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Transcript
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And we're wondering, what do we need to evacuate?
Right now we're calling for a city-wide volunteer evacuation.
What that means is if you have someplace to go outside the city, we're recommending that.
But we're not doing any mandatory, down any specific area right now that I'm aware of.
Okay, well, our chances right now are to go, do you know the warehouse on University next to Pepper Pepper?
That's our chance at that tonight.
But tomorrow, if we can get out of town, we can go to Minneapolis.
Okay.
Yeah, that's up to you as far as, you know, if you're going to say the word out.
You know, you should be okay there, because that's above, obviously, if you get upstairs.
Okay, yeah, I live on third floor, so I'm not worried about my apartment.
I'm worried about, am I going to be able to get out of my building tomorrow morning?
Yeah, if they're not, they'll get you out that thing, if it gets to that point.
Okay.
What about, how's warehouse?
Are they, you know, if we get flooded and we have water all in the streets downtown, what about warehouse?
Are they going to have water?
Should we go to the warehouse tonight and then go to Minneapolis tomorrow?
Or should we stay in our building?
Actually, we would like to stay in our apartment tonight and then go leave from here tomorrow morning.
Okay, that would be up to you.
I guess I can't tell you what to do there.
Okay, well, do you know one thing about if warehouse is going to be safe?
We're leaving from or if it's going to be less water there?
No idea.
Actually, you could try this number back in about 20 minutes, because the EOC, which would have that information,
they had to evacuate and they're down at UND and they're trying to get their phone lines reconnected.
So we're just taking their calls for them.
Okay.
Can I ask you what is your phone number again?
Yeah.
Let's see, I need to get out of here.
746, where did it go?
2685.
2685.
Yep.
In 20 minutes?
Yeah, because what's happening is they're transferring their phone lines,
and since their phone lines aren't hooked up, it comes to law enforcement center.
So we don't have a lot of information that they have.
Okay.
So if you just try them back, hopefully their lines will be up by then.
Okay.
I appreciate that.
You bet.
Bye.