Interhospital flight request declined due to weather

Heard on: Polk County, Dallas County, and Warren County Public Safety and ISP

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Attention, ambulance three.

00:01

Have an interhospital flight request coming out of Trinity Regional in Fort Dodge, going to University of Iowa.

00:08

Patient weight 64 kilos.

00:10

This was declined by Life Flight due to weather.

00:17

Stand by.

00:22

Copy checking weather.

00:28

Route Methodist, starting miles (number withheld) .

00:36

Copy.

00:41

There's a message in your trip.

00:49

Carlisle ambulance, fall (number withheld) Southeast 64th Avenue.

00:55

Carlisle ambulance, fall (number withheld) southeast 64th avenue between southeast 56th street and southeast 60th street.

01:04

Response three, time out (number withheld) .

01:13

Dispatch, unit three.

01:20

Apologies, I missed a piece of the weather there.

01:22

We'll have to decline this for weather.

01:25

We're at thunderstorms forecasted.

01:29

Good copy, declining for weather.

8/29/2026 02:47 AM

Medical Emergency

S 25th St, Fort Dodge, IA 50501

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As discussed during the dispatch call, an interfacility air-transport request was reported from a hospital in Fort Dodge to a hospital in Iowa City for a patient. The flight and a ground unit declined the trip due to weather concerns, and another fall-related medical call was also dispatched to a location on Southeast 64th Avenue.