Bicyclist found injured in ditch on Lee Jackson Hwy, Bedford County VA
A bicyclist was found lying in a ditch near Lee Jackson Hwy and Niagara Street in Bedford County, Virginia. The patient was awake, complaining of right knee pain, and coughing up blood. Emergency crews removed the bike and are controlling traffic to allow ambulance access.
Audio|Source: Bedford County Fire and Rescue (Ops)
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Transcript:
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Command 2 Command 2 Command 2 is wrapping all the scene, about one motion laying in a ditch, yeah, further investigating.
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One patient lane in the ditch investigating 2050.
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That's engine 2.
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Engine 2. Engine 2.
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With three.
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Engine 2 and 3.
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Effort Chief 2.
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Chief 2.
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All right, I got one patient he's awake and oriented.
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He is complaining of leg pain and he's coughing up blood.
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252.
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The bike has been removed off top of him back. Yes.
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Cettle.
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Engine two.
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Lee Jackson and Niagara.
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All right,
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engine two, when you arrive, just pull off on a, and they pull off going towards.
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the dam, probably across some residents.
01:32
Copy, staging the pull-off, going to the dam.
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All right, I'm going to go ahead and send you on through engine, too.
01:42
Go around the curve and come back and block a road. Drop the one operator off at the top of the hill.
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Can y'all do traffic control for me?
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Bradford, Amy, let's do one. We're out with two at the air level.
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255.
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Command, have you made a request for VDOT for traffic?
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Negative. We're not going to need VDOT.
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Just drop off one of your firefighters just pop and a heel, give a couple of flares.
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You come fast and in command vehicle, go around the curve and you'll coordinate traffic control until we get the ambulance out of air.
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Doc, simple.
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That's the agent days arrived.
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2056.
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May,
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Daniel, 2-1.
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Go ahead.
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14 minutes now.
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St.J.
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This stage right here at the patient. When you come down a hill, you'll see me standing here with the patient.
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The patient's laying in the ditch. He's complaining the right knee pain and he is coughing up some blood.
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He was wearing a hounder.
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He is a (number withheld) year old (number withheld) male.
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Okay,
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man, I'm set up at Walker Road 5.01. Medic unit's coming to me now.
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I'm switching over to attack, okay.
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10 for y'all, handle the traffic.
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After, you can show ambulance you on around.
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2100.
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