Welfare check for injured woman refusing ambulance, East Chatham NY


A welfare check was requested near County Route 9 in the Town of Canaan for two vulnerable adults. The mother was found bleeding from her head with blood on her shirt. She refused ambulance transport and said she may have been sleepwalking. Emergency services, including EMS, fire, and police, were sent due to safety concerns.
Audio|Source: Columbia County Sheriff and Fire, Hudson Police
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Transcript:
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once you're in Clanford Welfare Check[1], also be an EMS assist.
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It would be near County Route 9, Town of Canaan,
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Crutche State Route 295, and Bearpaw Road.
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It's going to be just in off of State Route 295.
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Be on the right-hand side of the roadway traveling north.
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Caller is a co-arch employee there to pick up two vulnerable adults at that location.
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She's advising that the mother of the adults at the location was bleeding from the head.
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Also, she had durbed blood around the neck of the shirt.
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She's advising the female subject did not want an ambulance.
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The female subject indicated possibly, was sleepwalking.
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The co-arch employee was still comfortable leaving the female subject at that location.
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We're dispatching EMS as well.
Police codes explained
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Welfare Check: Request to check on a person's well-being
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