Flood Call 296

The dispatcher called a personal acquaintance to let her know that she was still at the police station answering phones until the Emergency Operations Center's telephone lines were up. They discussed the evacuations.

Date April 19th 1997, 12:26 am
Duration 137 seconds
Channel 25
Direction outgoing call
Abstract By Lucas Amundson
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Transcript

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Hello?
Hello.
Yeah?
How's it going?
Good.
Safe?
Yeah, I'm just answering phones.
They were just going nuts in here, so I said, well, I can help out, so.
Well, anyway, what the heck happened to you?
Yeah.
I told the janitor to go out and tell his whole case.
How's it doing at your place?
Oh, fine.
Did you hear that?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So what happened is they had to move the EOC out of here, and their lines aren't backed
up.
So we're getting all their calls, and they're asking about the hundred-year floodplain.
It's like, I have no idea what's going on.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm just answering phones.
They were just going nuts in here, so I said, well, I can help out, so.
Well, anyway, what the heck happened to you?
Yeah.
I told the janitor to go out and tell his whole case.
How's it doing at your place?
Oh, fine.
Did you hear that they're calling for a voluntary evacuation of the whole city?
Yeah.
Mandatory, and they're like, how did your floodplain end?
Oh, that.
Yeah.
Voluntary for the others?
Yeah.
So what happened is they had to move the EOC out of here.
Yeah.
And their lines aren't backed up.
So we're getting all their calls, and they're asking about the hundred-year floodplain.
It's like, I have no idea.
That's good.
Okay.
It seems like two.
And we're going to put a picture of them on the TV so people can see.
Yeah.
I don't know where they are.
Uh-huh.
Are you guys going to be able to follow?
Oh, yeah.
I'm not going to be able to follow.
Okay.
How's Stacy doing?
She's doing good.
Okay.
Sorry about all this.
It looks like my mom went to the bed downstairs with Brittany and Daz.
Let's see.
Okay.
I don't know when I'll get there.
As soon as these lines come up, we're leaving.
But we've got to keep them on the phone so they can get their lines up at the EOC.
So I don't know how long it's going to be.
It might be long.
She gave my health keys.
Do you want us to go check up with her for your place?
You could, but I didn't leave my keys or anything.
We can get down there.
I really appreciate that.
Okay.
Thank you.
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Oh, do you guys have health keys?
I don't know.
Oh, it's about me getting in one, but we're just probably going to.
Do we have any physical and checking Reconstruction.
I don't think so, because Brian and Logan I think would give us a call here or something
I think if it was coming up.
Well, we'll just make them crash in the basement here then so they can tell us when they get
home.
There you go.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
I didn't think that this was going to happen, so.
Oh, okay.
They didn't even know what happened.
I feel like, oh, she's probably going to move the EOC or something.
I couldn't be in town then.
Yeah, I'm still in the police department, but we're going to have to get off our truck,
I guess, so it's not a lot of water then.
Sounds like it.
Jim was in here a little bit.
He'd already moved the pickup, so he's out by the university.
So how am I going to get there?
I'm going to get a ride from these guys.
Oh, okay.
But we're going to get back to the hospital.
Okay.
Yep, I'll be back home for you.