Flooded streets strand vehicles; rescues underway, Hammond IN


Dispatch audio about widespread flooding near Maryland Avenue and nearby streets. Multiple vehicles are stranded in high water and responders are assisting or rescuing people. Some residents refuse evacuation and prefer to stay. There are reports of a tree down in an alley, utility problems, and other calls such as brush fires in the area.
Audio|Source: Lake County Public Safety
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Transcript:
Happy. Sounds right now. Okay. Do we need to have S.D. come out and check on those people? Negative. One has their father en route. He's just down the street. The other guy is going to either call (name withheld) or (name withheld). Neither one of them wanted to be taken to higher ground. They said they felt comfortable sitting in here. So I'm going to keep an eye on the area and just get to check a little further down. Thank you. I'll swap it. Hi, (name withheld). We do have a, it looks like a flooded house. (name withheld) house. Civilian, 267, Begin Reading Street. Open 94-10. Time out, 21, 32 hours. Assist civilian. Brush fire. Broadmoor Avenue and Shriver Drive. Monster Fire Department. Time out, 3132 hours. Brush fire. to put 9710 to that Maple Call that 8910 was initially going to I'm in route to Lake Street as well so I can assist 8910 over there you can head 9710 to that Maple Call I can Check that Maple Avenue for Brushfire. 97-10-7528 Maple Avenue for Brushfire. The 94-10, Civilian, 237, McKinley Street. 9410, Civilian, 237, McKinley. 86.4, I need you to TX Radio. GX now, Central. Copy that order, I did. What side of summer needs to be blocked? (name withheld) asking. I have it. Near 140 in Guthrie, right behind Speedway. Once I'm going to advise (name withheld), I advise that he was coming off of Kline now. So he'd do that in a minute. 9.15, left, 39th place. Ambulance 5661. Engine 5611. Time out, 21, 34 hours. Utility problem. 521 Jerry Street enter 98 Hennett timeout 21 34 hours assist civilian. 84-11 you go ahead sir yeah there's still about two-foot water at 129th and a half the boulevard we just got all the people out of the cars there still two cars sitting there that are you going to tow out But I wouldn't send any cars that way. There's still two feet of water. Have it, thank you. I just want to go ahead. We're on 6635 Maryland. We're going to need this a lot here. We do have a tree on there in the alley. All the lines are still watch. All these 6,600 Maryland calls are related. I have copy. I'm working on LinkedIn together. Continue to check it out. Make sure nobody's in answer. We don't want to abandon no one. I copy. System is bigger. I need to see you going to a vehicle second floor water. Tempour, be checking it out. It's going on Indiana City. We'll say we've got one car on the water. We're trying to see if we can get access to it and see if we can get access to it and see as anybody inside. There's two or three cars pulled over here. (name withheld) don't see. I copy. 9410, do you copy? 237 McCamley Street. (name withheld) Central, what's that address in Maple? (name withheld), to see an address on Maple is 7528 Maple Avenue. Uh, Code 1 on the corner because it's flooded on the corner. Copy. 15, I see it's advising they got three people from two vehicles. They're trying to get them to shelter some of safe in high water.
Happy. Sounds right now. Okay. Do we need to have S.D. come out and check on those people? Negative. One has their father en route. He's just down the street. The other guy is going to either call (name withheld) or (name withheld). Neither one of them wanted to be taken to higher ground. They said they felt comfortable sitting in here. So I'm going to keep an eye on the area and just get to check a little further down. Thank you. I'll swap it. Hi, (name withheld). We do have a, it looks like a flooded house. (name withheld) house. Civilian, 267, Begin Reading Street. Open 94-10. Time out, 21, 32 hours. Assist civilian. Brush fire. Broadmoor Avenue and Shriver Drive. Monster Fire Department. Time out, 3132 hours. Brush fire. to put 9710 to that Maple Call that 8910 was initially going to I'm in route to Lake Street as well so I can assist 8910 over there you can head 9710 to that Maple Call I can Check that Maple Avenue for Brushfire. 97-10-7528 Maple Avenue for Brushfire. The 94-10, Civilian, 237, McKinley Street. 9410, Civilian, 237, McKinley. 86.4, I need you to TX Radio. GX now, Central. Copy that order, I did. What side of summer needs to be blocked? (name withheld) asking. I have it. Near 140 in Guthrie, right behind Speedway. Once I'm going to advise (name withheld), I advise that he was coming off of Kline now. So he'd do that in a minute. 9.15, left, 39th place. Ambulance 5661. Engine 5611. Time out, 21, 34 hours. Utility problem. 521 Jerry Street enter 98 Hennett timeout 21 34 hours assist civilian. 84-11 you go ahead sir yeah there's still about two-foot water at 129th and a half the boulevard we just got all the people out of the cars there still two cars sitting there that are you going to tow out But I wouldn't send any cars that way. There's still two feet of water. Have it, thank you. I just want to go ahead. We're on 6635 Maryland. We're going to need this a lot here. We do have a tree on there in the alley. All the lines are still watch. All these 6,600 Maryland calls are related. I have copy. I'm working on LinkedIn together. Continue to check it out. Make sure nobody's in answer. We don't want to abandon no one. I copy. System is bigger. I need to see you going to a vehicle second floor water. Tempour, be checking it out. It's going on Indiana City. We'll say we've got one car on the water. We're trying to see if we can get access to it and see if we can get access to it and see as anybody inside. There's two or three cars pulled over here. (name withheld) don't see. I copy. 9410, do you copy? 237 McCamley Street. (name withheld) Central, what's that address in Maple? (name withheld), to see an address on Maple is 7528 Maple Avenue. Uh, Code 1 on the corner because it's flooded on the corner. Copy. 15, I see it's advising they got three people from two vehicles. They're trying to get them to shelter some of safe in high water.
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Location mentioned:
Near Maryland Ave, Hammond, IN 46323
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