Flood Call 339
Caller asked if his location on Oak Street was under the voluntary evacuation list. The dispatcher informed him that the entire city was. The caller then asked if his area was within the 100 year floodplain, and the dispatcher told him she did not know. There are snippets of several other calls on the recording, as well.
| Date | April 19th 1997, 12:53 am |
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| Duration | 68 seconds |
| Channel | 25 |
| Direction | incoming call |
| Abstract By | Lucas Amundson |
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Transcript
The following transcript was automatically generated, and has not been reviewed for accuracy. It may contain errors.
list?
The whole city is on the voluntary evacuation list.
Whole city?
Yep.
Are we in that 100 year?
I have no idea.
They just told us that it's a voluntary evacuation in the whole city and they're recommending
if people have some place to go outside the city that they should go because they don't
know what the river is going to do overnight.
Okay, thank you.
Yep, bye bye.
So you don't have to evacuate or what?
You do not have to.
Thanks, how are they?
Can they help you?
Okay, are we?
I think I'm in a safe area right now.
I don't want to wake up my mom.
She's with Red Cross.
She's been working for a month straight.
Are we supposed to report to somebody where we're at and the number where we can be reached
in case people are trying to reach us or?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Are we supposed to report to somebody where we're at and the number where we can be reached
in case people are trying to reach us or?
I don't have the answer to that right now.
The EOC is trying to get their phone line to back up.
Okay.
And we're getting their rollover.
If you just call us and say the number back in about half an hour, hopefully they'll be
up.
Okay, thank you very much.
Bye bye.