Flood Call 702

Caller wants to know if she should go back and open windows in her basement. Dispatch tells her she can't go into evacuated area. Caller inquires whether or not the dike is going to break.

Date April 18th 1997, 8:51 pm
Duration 50 seconds
Channel 25
Direction outgoing call
Abstract By Samantha Criswell
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Transcript

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We live on Riverside Park on Lewis Boulevard, and we want to know if we should go back and
open the windows in our basement.
It's an evacuated area, you can't get back into there.
It's been evacuated now, I'm sorry.
I don't know if it's fast or not, but you wouldn't be able to enter, okay?
Okay, well, is the Riverside dike okay or is it going to break?
We don't know if it's going to break, but it is failing.
There is water coming through.
Will the water come to the basement or the first floor?
Ma'am, I don't know if the whole dike goes.
It'll probably cover the whole city of Grand Forks.
So right now we don't know.
We just know that there is water coming through and that nobody is allowed back in those areas.
Okay, thank you.