Medical emergency with helicopter landing in field near Hatch Ave, Cedar Springs MI
Medical EmergencyFire and EMS units responded to a medical emergency near Hatch Avenue in Cedar Springs. They coordinated to establish a landing zone in a nearby field for an AeroMed helicopter to transport the patient. The patient was located near the woods, and responders adjusted the landing zone details multiple times to find the best location. The helicopter was approximately 45 minutes away from Traverse City when the incident occurred.
Audio|Source: Kent County Fire and EMS
07:48
Transcript:
00:00
All right, since you know the way, head back this way to the scene.
00:06
10-4[1], as soon as I find a good route, I'll get with Car 1.
00:10
Let's see about just landing them right at the edge of this field.
00:15
Happy.
00:17
Yeah, that's where I was going to land them.
00:24
Under Firefighter, 27 to 1, where would you want me?
00:29
Yeah, where are you at?
00:32
Coming down force, uh, Pony right now, coming up to 19th.
00:40
A stage up there by Rock Ramas Burka on the road,
00:44
walk in.
00:49
What do you get there? Hang up by Medic 1.
00:56
One minute 51 has ALS[2].
01:00
AOS[3] is that's 1547.
01:07
Due to distance, AIME is just going to auto-launch, just advise if they need to cancel.
01:16
We have not got an LZ set up yet.
01:19
It's going to be in a field back by the patient is located.
01:24
It's going to be kind of to the west of south of the woods line.
01:28
We had a call back a couple weeks ago with a lost subject in the woods.
01:33
I don't know if you can pull that detail up up in this area.
01:38
It's going to be that field there.
01:40
If you can look at your GPS line.
01:48
Search.
01:51
I'm headed back to the medic unit, see if I get it drove back into that field.
01:57
September.
01:58
It's going to be an auto launch as they called.
02:06
So I told them they're getting in the field. I'm trying to get back to get medic 1 to drive around over there.
02:12
10 for you, I was just going to advise you that the field that we were in for the dementia patient is not the correct field.
02:20
This is going to be east of our location off of hatch west side of the road by where the white barn is with the silo.
02:29
That's where the LZ we have the easiest path to.
02:36
Or that other abandoned field where they're working on the dirt there across from the future cell tower.
02:44
It's going to be the west side of the road. I'm not sure what kind of field it is. It's dormant, but it's just north of 19 mile. There's a white barn approximately 100 by 60 with a white silo.
02:57
Just west of that and that field anywhere would be fine.
03:02
I'm gonna say there's a field north of that's abandoned there's a storage unit container on it.
03:12
I'll see if I can get you a rough address for reference.
03:17
Yeah, I'm walking back the car. I hope my cell phone's in there and I can figure it out from there.
03:26
20 to 1, an approximate address for your reference in Arrowmet is going to be near Hatch Avenue.
03:40
600 Hatch.
03:43
Affirmative, near Hatch.
03:50
For 27 to 1, I'm at Med1.
03:58
What's that?
03:59
2020.
04:02
Go ahead.
04:05
Steve grab rockered animals. We'll head that way.
04:08
I'll grab Medic 1 and now we'll give you a better idea.
04:15
But we can always go in that one drive off 18 mile road to those people that we go to call that's got the animals all there. We can drive back straight to that.
04:27
104, I'm going to go through a screenshot, drop a pin on the map, and then I will TX it to you in 27 where I'd like you and the bird.
04:37
104. Okay,
04:40
a car 2, Oakfield, 530, bring those seats back.
04:47
Smash count one, medic 51 is clear.
04:51
It's clear. Okay, 501.
04:57
Of the one can you keep me updated on airman status?
05:03
Will do.
05:08
So is your commandant Tony. Any work on a arrowman?
05:16
We're out or launching due to the distance.
05:19
I do see that there's a open field just southwest of you guys.
05:25
Addresses 1057519 mile. Is that the landing zone you guys are talking about? I can't find the previous.
05:33
Yeah, Tony says something to a near Hatch. We're heading that way to see if that's any probable.
05:41
But that is the correct address for the other one that we had here a couple weeks ago.
05:47
Okay.
05:51
Okay.
05:56
Spencer Firefighter 20 to dispatch.
06:00
Firefire 20, go ahead.
06:02
We're going to be extricating and bringing the victim southeast of his location to the open field on the corner of his location.
06:10
There's a rectangular field we'd like to have personnel and AeroMed staged in the northwest corner of that field along the tree line.
06:34
Along that's on the tree line, 854.
06:43
A504. Aero Met is 45 minutes south they're coming from Traverse City. We'll be on air LZ1.
06:50
45 minutes LZ1, 10 port.
06:57
20 20, do you see me?
07:03
Go for 20, can you repeat?
07:06
Do you see me out in the field?
07:12
What field are you in?
07:16
Corner 19 mile in Meadow, I mean 19 mile and hatch.
07:21
I'm going back to that corner right now.
07:24
No, I'm not going to be able to see you. I can see just the bottom of where the field opens up, but we got a pretty good game trail that opens up into those pines in there.
07:37
I see pines just for your north, so I do believe that is where he is talking about.
07:44
I'm right here at the edge of line right now. Can you see the lights another one?
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
10-4: Acknowledgement / Message received
[2]
ALS: Advanced Life Support (paramedic-level medical response)
[3]
AOS: Arrived on scene
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Location mentioned:
Near Hatch Ave NE, Cedar Springs, MI 49319
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