BELTON - The first 911 call during last week's shooting rampage on Fort Hood came from a woman who was lying under a table or desk and had bullets flying around her in the air, according to a Bell County official with a knowledge of the call.

The woman, whose identity has not been released, was so panicked she had trouble telling the dispatcher the shooting was at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center.

She placed the call at 1:20 p.m. and stayed on the phone for several minutes reporting on the number of people shot, the official said.

The woman's call proved to be the first of many the Bell County Communications Center would process that afternoon and into the evening.

In an 11-minute span beginning with the first call, the center received 64 different 911 calls, said Dalton Cross, director of the center.

"The phones rang constantly for 15 minutes," he said.