Everyone in my family is alright … my parents live in Portland, ND and my uncle lives in Grand Forks. It sounds like the whole town is torn up pretty good though. Hopefully everyone has been found and treated.

Lucas

smtomps1955;181857 wrote:
was that shit suppose to head this way or we going to get the ass end of it? heard yes and no.

no, this is staying all north for now...

tomorrow afternoon we may see something farther south (I hope we can at least get some rain out here)

STiSchucky;181854 wrote:
im interested, is there a lot of shit you get called into on an average day?

nope, not at all really.

we cover, as the primary unit, a LOT of area out here (15 miles west, 7 miles north, 10 miles south, and about 9 miles east) but there isn't a large population. Page is only 220ish and we cover parts or all of a couple other small towns and serve as back-up and second crew for anyone in the county basically. For instance the bomb scare at meritcare, our crew was on standby in Fargo to assist along with every other EMS unit in Cass County. Couple years ago during the first big icy weather spell we were called to assist for car accidents on I94 which is about 25 miles out.

call load varies greatly both with fire/rescue and EMS. EMS may go an entire month without a call, or we'll have a span of 3 days with 4 calls like we had the beginning of last week. Usually there are between 1 and 4 calls per month for EMS. Fire has been very very quiet the last 3 or 4 years. We used to go out at least weekly for small brush fires and an occasional machinery fire. The last few months we haven't had anything except for a pretty interesting car accident about 3 weeks ago and the house fire I posted about a week ago.

but, we'll see it all out here. Paramedic crews from Fargo intercept most of our medical calls so they can start IVs, intubate, and set up 12 leads as necessary.

thankfully, I don't want to try and cover Fargo tonight...

Many injured being transported to Altru in Grand Forks.

tjamz;181841 wrote:
WOW, that is crazy. Hope the damages (people & property) are a minimum.

indeed. injuries were confirmed but no info on number or severity.

GFAFB is sending crews with lighting.

DWeigs;181836 wrote:
I just talked to a friend in Thompson and they got hit really hard... I herd there might even be another cell or tornado heading there way!!

shiiiit, aunt/uncle and family live in Thompson...

northwood fire dept collapsed, hospital sustained damage but is still operational, school is beat up...

STiSchucky;181833 wrote:
tornado?

yeah, touchdown in town...

sounds like power is out and part of the roof on the school is gone. Don't know how much more damage there is any word on injuries yet.

Wasn't getting much for radio traffic out of Cass County and we don't have anything that far north programmed into our radios.