Flood Call 302

Caller asked if there was a voluntary evacuation for Grand Forks, and the dispatcher told him there was. The caller asked what was the probability of a mandatory evacuation. The dispatcher said that the Emergency Operations Center would have more information, but their phones were down while they were relocating to the UND campus. She recommended that the caller try back in 20 minutes.

Date	April 19th 1997, 12:33 am
Duration	80 seconds
Channel	25
Direction	incoming call
Abstract By	Lucas Amundson
Tagged As	voluntary evacuation Emergency Operations Center (EOC) evacuation University of North Dakota (UND)

Transcript

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I was wondering if you could tell me if there is a voluntary evacuation in effect for Grand
Forks right now?
Yes, there is.
There is.
Could you tell me what the probability of there being a mandatory Grand Forks evacuation?
I really don't know.
Right now the Ingle Sea Center had to relocate to the UND area and they would know that information
and we're just taking their rollover calls.
So if you could call this number back in about 20 minutes.
Do you know what level the water would have to be for there to be a mandatory?
No idea.
No, they haven't told us anything.
But right now there's a voluntary evacuation?
As a whole city, yep.
It's basically just saying that if you get someplace else to go it would be a good idea
to go because they don't know what the river is going to do.
Really so that might be the best idea to get out of town?
That's what they're recommending, yep.
And no word has been given about UND though?
Nope.
Well they're relocating over there so I'm assuming that they think that's a much better
place to be.
They're relocating to UND?
The ELC is, the emergency operation center.
That's why we're taking their calls, they're trying to get their phone lines reconnected
over there.
Okay and so I should call back in about 20 minutes?
Yep.
They're telling us 20 minutes, we're hoping it'll be up.
If not you'll get one of us and we'll have to tell you to call back later again but we're
hoping in 20 minutes it'll be up.
Okay, thank you very much.
Yep, bye bye.