Yangyang-gu Regional Dispatch Center

Incident Number: 18-47835

119 Call Transcript

Call Received: 04:03:45

Operator: 119, what is the address of the emergency?

Caller: There’s people dying here. Everywhere.

Operator: Give me the address, sir.

Caller: They were all fine…we were fine…but the children started getting sick and it’s not the flu like the doctors said. (inaudible)

Operator: Sir, please calm down and tell me where you are.

Caller: They keep biting people like they’ve gone rabid.

Operator: Are you in Gisamun-ri?

Caller: Yes! We keep calling for help, everybody is sick (coughing)

Operator: Sir, our records show that there is already a CDC containment unit in your area. Please stay inside and they will come to your home to help you.

Caller: The soldiers locked us in! They’re pouring something around the building, please send help!

Operator: What soldiers? Sir, the CDC may confine you to your home for your own safety.

Caller: No, not just me- all of us! They told us to come to the community center, they told us there would be doctors! (background screaming)

Operator: Sir? Sir, can you tell me what’s happening? Sir?

(Call ends)

Dispatch Record

04:07:15 - Dispatch: Report of potential hostage situation in Gisamun-ri, multiple victims. All available units, respond.

04:09:12 - Dispatch: Attention, attention. Engine 1, Engine 2, Rescue 1 respond to 10 Gisamun-gil, multiple reports of a fire at the community center. Multiple occupants trapped inside. (Repeated)

04:15:33 - Engine 1: On the scene, single-story wood-frame residential, we’ve got heavy fire on front of the building, front and right sides.

Dispatch: Received. Engine 1 reporting heavy fire A-D sides.

04:17:01 - Engine 1 to Dispatch: We’ve got a military unit at the scene preventing us from operating, please advise. There are trapped victims inside. Please advise.

04:18:00 - Engine 1 to Dispatch: There is a uniformed army unit on site blockading the scene. They are not assisting the rescue, repeat, they are not assisting. Please advise.

04:18:31 - Engine 1 to Dispatch: Are you people asleep?! Where the hell is Engine 2 and Rescue 1? We’re sitting on our asses watching civilians burn to death!

Dispatch: Stand down Engine 1. That’s a direct order from the Gangwon Headquarters. Repeat. Stand down all operations and return to station.

Engine 1: Like hell we will.

Report Log: NIS Armed Containment Unit 207

Incident 435

00:00 Containment unit arrived on scene. Guardian reports widespread contamination of civilian population. Confirmation required.

01:20 Unit medic reports positive identification of multiple vivus-infected individuals. Guardian report confirmed. Individual quarantine is deemed inadequate. Mass quarantine protocols are in effect.

04:15 Local fire and rescue organization arrives on scene, hampering quarantine efforts. Requested assistance from HQ.

04:20 Local interference eliminated. Cleanup squad requested. Quarantine effort resuming.

06:00 Mass quarantine complete. Sixty cases successfully contained.

End of Incident 435 Containment Report

Outcome: Quarantine Successful, pending door-to-door sweep.