Authorities on Friday released the transcript of 911 calls they received early Thursday just after a car carrying a woman and five children plunged into a holding pond in St. Louis Park.
Operator 1: 911?
Caller 1: Hi, um, there's a … there's a woman screaming. I … I'm not sure where she is. It sounds like she's up somewhere ….
Operator 1: Outside?
Caller 1: Near the on-ramp to Highway 100, um ….
Operator 2: 911.
Caller 1: Towards off of, um …
Caller 2: Hey, yeah, I live in St. Louis Park …
Caller 1: Highway 7 and …
Caller 2: I just got home from dropping my fiancée off and ….
Caller 1: … the holding pond.
Caller 2: It's on the interstate …
Operator 1: OK, like a car taking off or something?
Caller 2: Of, um, 100, merging from 7 …
Caller 1: You know it's dark over there, I just can't …
Caller 2: And there's somebody out there screaming …
Operator 1: OK, somewhere over the ramp …
Caller 2: Like it sounds like a … and is screaming for help …
Operator 1: Highway 100 and Highway 7.
Caller 2: And …
Operator 2: OK, northbound, southbound?
Caller 2: There's something like scary over there, um …
Operator 1: … squads over there, thank you.
Operator 2: What direction?
Caller 2: Northbound Highway 100 off of the merging lane from 7.
Operator 1: 911.
Caller 3: 911, yeah, uh, I'm at the …
Operator 2: OK, from 7 to northbound 100?
Caller 3: I'm at the on-ramp …
Caller 2: Yeah and it … it's really scary.
Caller 3: … of Highway 100 for 7 and there's a car
Operator 2: OK, thank you.
Operator 1: Are you talking about northbound 100 about the car off the road?
Caller 3: It's in the pond, ma'am. You can't even see the …
Operator 1: I know, yep, we're on the ….