Charleston floods force road closures as vehicles sink
HurricaneEmergency radio traffic about severe flooding in Charleston during a hurricane. Responders report water covering streets, cars stuck in floodwater, and plans to close roads and direct traffic to safer routes while high-water units move in.
Audio|Source: Charleston County Police, Fire, EMS/Rescue, Marine SAR
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Transcript:
I gotta figure out where the hell we're gonna send them dude because we can't see down, down roadway southbound. Ashley Ave is all flooded out also. 1931 hopping off a remote dunes for a couple minutes. Medic 5883 Calfa Tree Lane, Backpane, Incident Channel EMF helps. Mediq 5883-83 Coffee Lane, Cross Streets, Yellow Dog Road and Dead End, back pain, incident channel EMF helps 1033. Medic 7 relocate to EMS Natick 14. MediC 7 relocate to EMS Natick 14. Mediq 10 relocate to St. Andrew's headquarters and EMS Mediq 3. Mediq 10 relocate to St. Andrew's headquarters and EMS Natick 3. Yeah, dude, this needs to get shut down and click over here. We're almost at the two foot mark, and the waves are... smashing up against these businesses. Yeah, I'm working on it, man. I'm trying to figure out where we're going to pull all these cars, because we can't just shut it off and then have nowhere for them to go. We're going to probably send them down in Gatson. That fair, you want me to send them right on SNF? Yeah, that, or, you know, they could just make the U-Turring and go back, go back towards King. All right, I'm shutting it down, I'm shutting it down now. Sorry, I just shut down at Smith and Calhoun. I can put barricades here, actually, if you want. Uh, yeah, I mean, if barricades would work, and then we might need to go ahead and get... No, no, no, no... Dispatch, Advanced 63 Clearing Hospital. Dispatch, copy, 1036. Yeah, I'm going to set the barricades out here. Is that 36? Where is it is, (name withheld)? Just veg coffee, soon. 37. (name withheld) 104. Engine 106. Cannon, Green Reading Center. Haiti, Cannon Street. Building C. Alarm. Incident, Channel 4. Rata 104. Engine 106. Cannon, Redding Center. Haiti, Cross Streets. Felix Street and Smith Street. Alarm. Incident Channel 4. 1037. (name withheld) 104. Engine 106. Cannon Queen Wedding Center. 80 Cannon Street. Building C. Alarm. Incident, channel 4. Rata 1004.106. Cannon Queen Wedding Center. 80 Cannon Street. Building C. Cross Streets. Felix Street and Smith Street. Alarm. Incident. Channel 4. 1037. Engine 109.18 Alwood Avenue. Sinking vehicle, vehicle in floodwater. Incident 1004.104. Engine 109. 18 Alward Avenue. Cross streets. Cutie Street and Lee Avenue. Sinking vehicle, vehicle and floodwater. Incident 101038[1]. Engine 109, 18 Alward Avenue, sinking vehicle, vehicle, and floodwater, incident 10104[3]. Engine 10104, Incident 10.04[2], 10.04, 1038. Engine 10.08, dispatch. Engine one. You shouldn't really have anything else coming towards you unless it's from Rutledge. We'll pick up that call for Engine 109. We'll be putting High Water 101 in service. Have you wanted to just drop a high water 101 on it? That's a affirmative. All right, my feet or something. And Ninja 108, you're cross-tapping, correct? That's affirmative. Engine 108 will be out of service. Water 101 will be in service for the cross-stepping.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
1038: Vehicle in Floodwater / Sinking Vehicle
[2]
10.04: Incident Number
[3]
10104: Incident Number
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Charleston, SC
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