Flood Call 284

Caller wanted to know details of the voluntary evacution. The dispatcher explained that the Emergency Operations Center would have that information, but their phones were down and would not be up for another a while. She recommended the caller call back in around 20 minutes. The caller then requested volunteers be sent to her location if possible because everyone was very tired from working.

Date	April 19th 1997, 12:16 am
Duration	75 seconds
Channel	25
Direction	incoming call
Abstract By	Lucas Amundson
Tagged As	voluntary evacuation Emergency Operations Center (EOC) sandbagging volunteers

Transcript

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Is this emergency operation safe?
No, actually their lines aren't back up yet. They had to evacuate the police from the building and they're supposed to be up for the next 20 minutes.
So if you could just call the same number back it should be up.
Maybe you know what's going on. Is the city evacuated?
Right now they're calling for a voluntary evacuation which just means that if you have some place you can go outside of Grand Forks.
It's highly recommended because they don't know how much the river is going to keep rising and how the banks are going to hold and everything.
What about the East Grand Forks point?
I haven't heard anything. You might be able to get a hold of the ELC in East Grand Forks. I don't have that number with me.
But they would be able to help you out on the East side.
Okay, if you can anyway send volunteers over this way. We're staying ahead of it but people are getting very tired.
It was an allocation of God knows what.
Okay.
Like I said I don't have any way of getting that out. If you could just call this number back I realize you're probably busy and you've got a lot of stuff going on.
But once the ELC is back up they're the ones that are directing when people go for sandbagging and everything.
So if the East Grand Forks is going to sit at the auditorium would they call there?
Yeah you could call there too or call the same number back in about 20 minutes.
Alrighty, thanks a lot.
Bye bye.