Flood Call 312
Continuation of a previous call. The caller wondered if she had to worry about shutting off the gas, water, and power if they were to evacuate. The dispatcher said that she should not have to and that she should verify that information with the Emergency Operations Center. The dispatcher then asked someone on-site about shutting off the water and power and they said to go ahead and shut them off.
| Date | April 19th 1997, 12:42 am |
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| Duration | 128 seconds |
| Channel | 25 |
| Direction | incoming call |
| Abstract By | Lucas Amundson |
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Transcript
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The last I'd heard, and I can't give you this for sure because I don't have current information,
but the last I heard is that they were going to shut it off if it got to that point from the outside of the house.
So you could just leave.
So we could just leave and don't have to worry about the power and the water.
Right, but you might want to just recall this number in a half an hour and verify that.
Well, we'll probably be gone over to Red River by that.
We could still just give a call to verify it or to ask somebody there because that's what I was told,
but I don't know for sure.
And there's no one for me to ask right now because we're getting all their calls,
and we're really taking a lot of calls here.
If we don't turn the water and the power off, then that will be turned off for us?
That's what I was told last I heard, yep.
So we don't have to turn the gas off or anything?
Right, but like I said, you might want to just double-check that with EOC because...
Well, see, they're not answering their phone.
I know because their phone...
Because they're calling what I got.
They're trying to connect it, I know that, but I'm saying in like another half an hour,
even if you leave, just to give them a call back and say, you know,
just to double-check for your own, you know, piece of mind because that's what I was told,
but I can verify that at this time.
Now, can you hold a minute?
Sure, just a second.
Bob, do you know if they're supposed to shut their stuff off before they leave,
like if they're saying that OEC number is at 742685?
Yep, that's the same one.
I was just told here now that they said if you can shut it off yourself,
that's probably a good idea if you're going to be leaving.
The water and the power?
Yep, if you're going to be leaving.
We're going to go ahead and shut the gas off so the power company can do that.
Right, right.
See, we're just going over there and we may come back tomorrow, you know,
but we don't know if we can get how it'll be to come back.
Yeah.
And I couldn't help you there.
We don't know what the river's going to do overnight, so...
That's why we thought we'd leave.
I'm searching Avenue and Cottonwood,
and they said that the dyke over on Belmont Road wasn't so hot.
Yeah, so your best bet is to go to a river then.
Okay.
So we'll just turn the water and the power off then?
Yep, that would probably be your best bet.
And just leave the gas on?
Yep.
Okay, thank you.
Yep, bye-bye.