71-year-old male with knee injury after fall at home

Heard on: Preston County Fire and EMS

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This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

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Respond post traumatic injury victim of a fall, (number withheld) Shady Grove Road, for a ten time alert.

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Fourteen thirty-five.

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Six eighty-eight, acknowledge.

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You can show us in route.

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Six eighty-eight, copy.

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Okay. Good.

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Okay,

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we're going

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to a (number withheld) Shady Grove Road.

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You've got a 71 year old male.

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He advised that he tripped yesterday and hyperextended his knee.

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He is advising he's unable to bear any weight on it today.

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Advising not seeing any obvious injuries to it.

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Advised that when he.

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He tripped yesterday. He could feel some stuff stretching and popping inside of his knee.

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They did advise that within the next four months he's supposed to get a knee replacement done.

2026-10-16 18:35 UTC

Medical Emergency

Shady Grove Rd, Bruceton Mills, WV 26525

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As discussed during the dispatch call, emergency medical crews were dispatched to a home near Shady Grove Road for a 71-year-old man with a possible post-traumatic knee injury after he reportedly tripped the previous day and is now unable to bear weight on the leg.