Flood Call 487

Operator calls a woman back who is looking for her daughters in the town of Beltrami, Minnesota. The operator notifies her that Beltrami only had a voluntary evacuation about a week ago. Woman says a friend of hers called Beltrami but it just rang multiple times, operator assures her that she spoke to Polk County's Emergency Operations Center and that her information is correct.

Date	April 18th 1997, 9:21 pm
Duration	46 seconds
Channel	25
Direction	outgoing call
Abstract By	Erin Lurie
Tagged As	voluntary evacuation Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Grand Forks Police Department (GFPD) Polk County, Minnesota Beltrami, Minnesota

Transcript

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Hello?
Yeah.
Yes.
So this is the police department calling back?
Uh-huh.
So I might call down to Poole County and they stated that they'll try to be evacuated only
voluntarily a week ago.
They haven't had anybody evacuate since then.
So if you evacuated it, you've done it voluntarily.
Well, I had a friend of mine call out there and their phone was ringing, and he said,
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Maybe it's a phone ringing.
I don't know how.
But I had a friend of mine call out there, and their phone rang like 20 times.
I don't know.
Maybe they're out or something, but I called their EOC and he said that they have not evacuated.
Don't tell me.
And those that did evacuate was a week ago and it was voluntarily.
Is that right?
Yes.
That's what they told me in the EOC department.
Okay?
Okay.