Flood Call 349

The operator at the Law Enforcement Center explains to the caller that the Emergency Operations Center had to be relocated to the University and still hasn't gotten their lines operational yet, but it should be another 15-20 minutes. She adds that there is a city-wide voluntary evacuation, and that she doesn't know that status of Highway 2, only that an hour previous it was fine, but if she has anywhere to go, she should do so.

Date	April 18th 1997, 11:30 pm
Duration	81 seconds
Channel	25
Direction	incoming call
Abstract By	Emily Mell
Tagged As	voluntary evacuation Emergency Operations Center (EOC) University of North Dakota (UND) US Highway 2 Law Enforcement Center (LEC) road conditions

Transcript

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Law enforcement center?
Yes, is this the emergency one?
Nope, they're not up yet running.
They had to relocate to the university and they're getting their phone lines reconnected.
Okay, so what will the number be?
Same one. They're just trying to get it reconnected.
Right now it rolls over to the law enforcement center.
Okay.
So we're just taking their calls so they get reconnected.
And they told us about another 15, 20 minutes.
Do you know anything about people being evacuated there?
Right now they're calling for a voluntary evacuation of the whole city.
So if you have someplace else to go or you can go to Crookston or go to someplace out of town, they're recommending that.
But is it safe to be out driving on highways where we don't even know if there's water in the dishes or water under the bridges or what?
Yeah, I guess I can't answer that for you. I'm just telling you what they've told us.
I mean, where do you go?
Yeah, exactly. Driving in the middle of the night on highways where you don't even know if there's water.
Because like Laramore, I mean, on Highway 2 there's a Turtle River.
Well, I know as of an hour ago, Highway 2 was fine.
Highway 2 was fine.
Yep. But like I said, I haven't got a recent update on that.
So the only thing I can suggest is to wait for 20 minutes and call EOC and they might have more information.
They should have. Right now, like I said, they're relocating.
They're trying to get all the stuff set up and get the phone lines reconnected.
The same number that you called.
2685.
No, 2865.
Yep.
Okay, thanks.
Bye-bye.