Welfare check at home near Cherokee Rd, Bessemer AL
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, deputies were dispatched for a welfare check near Cherokee Rd in Bessemer. A caller requested officers check on an elderly male relative with dementia who lives with his caretaker. The caller noted it had been many years since their last contact and preferred that another family member not be informed of the call.
Audio|Heard on: Jefferson AL Law Dispatch Group Calls
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Transcript:
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Got a 62 near Cherokee Rd.
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The caller's request was a welfare check on her father, (name withheld), a 60-year-old male.
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Advises that it's been 20 years since she spoke with him.
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Advises that he recently lost his wife.
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He's going to live in the home on the property, not the trailer.
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She does not want the stepsister that also lives with him to know that she called in a welfare check.
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Ten four. I'm very familiar with the address.
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He has dementia, very bad.
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The stepsister that's there that lives with him is the caretaker.
00:38
She's also a firefighter for Minors.
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Ten four.
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Location mentioned:
Cherokee Rd, Bessemer, AL 35023
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