Flood Call 468

Female operator from Grand Forks Central calls Polk County and asks where Beltrami, MN is being evacuated to, man switches her over to EOC. Woman at EOC isn't quite sure, voices in background, can hear woman ask someone else, more voices and ringing, man at EOC takes call and operator from Grand Forks repeats her situation again. Man says there weren't any evacuations in Beltrami, then asks her to hold, call is transferred and she repeats her situation again, man notifies her that there was a volunteer evacuation one night over a week ago but that was it, she thanks him and call is ended.

Date	April 18th 1997, 9:20 pm
Duration	117 seconds
Channel	25
Direction	outgoing call
Abstract By	Erin Lurie
Tagged As	Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Beltrami, Minnesota

Transcript

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Hi, this is Polkani. This is Grand Forks Central.
Can you give me any information on the Belco or Beltrami area where people are being evacuated too?
No, I'll switch over to our EEOC, okay?
Thanks.
Diane, just call weapons that they're evacuating down stairs.
Yes. Hi, this is a police department in Grand Forks.
Yes.
Can you tell me where they're evacuating people from Beltrami?
Oh, I don't know. Just a moment, please.
This is Steve Dupo at the EEOC. What's going on here?
This is Grand Forks Police Department and I have somebody trying to find out about somebody that was supposedly evacuated in Beltrami.
Do you know where those people are being sheltered at or anything?
Somebody that was evacuated in Beltrami.
Yes.
We don't know of anybody from Beltrami that has been evacuated.
Okay, I'll let her know that then. Thank you.
Oh, wait a second. Okay, hold one.
Okay.
Mark Fontaine.
Hi, I'm calling from the police department in Grand Forks.
Yes.
Can I have a guy that's calling trying to find out about somebody that was evacuated from Beltrami?
We didn't have an evacuation of Beltrami.
We had a volunteer evacuation one night.
That was over a week ago.
Okay, I'll let her know. Thanks for your help.
Thank you. Bye-bye.