Elderly man with breathing issues needs air evacuation, Grand Rapids MI
Medical EmergencyEmergency services responded to an 86-year-old man near Marlboro St NW who was having difficulty breathing. Medical and fire units coordinated care and arranged for air medical evacuation, selecting landing zones in nearby fields.
Audio|Source: Kent County Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
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Walker engine 2 get a Med 1[3] near Marlboro St NW 86-year-old male difficult to breathing this risk create a
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Engineete, unseen.
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Engineade on scene.
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Engineade on scene.
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Go ahead. A minute, 561 is unseen.
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209-9-51 on scene, 840.
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7-1.
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Go ahead.
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Possibility of Aero-Mage.
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I'll put them on standby.
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I want to start, Peter, LV.
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You're 12.
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So this direction to the southeast of the patient that comes out in the field by hatch may be a decent option, especially if we have to walk with a mega mover, it's a lot more solid and a lot more level.
01:30
All right, since you know the way, head back this way to the scene.
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10-4[2], as soon as I find a good route, I'll get with Car 1.
01:40
Let's see about just landing them right at the edge of this field.
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Happy.
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Yeah, that's where I was going to land them.
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Under Firefighter, 27 to 1, where would you want me?
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Yeah, where are you at?
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Coming down force, uh, Pony right now, coming up to 19th.
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A stage up there by Rock Ramas Burka on the road,
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walk in.
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What do you get there? Hang up by Medic 1.
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One minute 51 has ALS[4].
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AOS is that's 1547.
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Due to distance, AIME is just going to auto-launch, just advise if they need to cancel.
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We have not got an LD set up yet.
02:49
It's going to be in a field back by the patient is located.
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It's going to be kind of to the west of south of the woods line.
02:59
We had a call back a couple weeks ago with a lost subject in the woods.
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I don't know if you can pull that detail up up in this area.
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It's going to be that field there.
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If you can look at your GPS line.
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Search.
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I'm headed back to the medic unit, see if I get it drove back into that field.
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September.
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It's going to be an auto launch as they called.
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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.
03:43
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.
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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.
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That's where the LZ[1] we have the easiest path to.
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or that other abandoned field where they're working on the dirt there across from the future cell tower.
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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.
04:28
Just west of that and that field anywhere would be fine.
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I'm gonna say there's a field north of that's abandoned there's a storage unit container on it.
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I'll see if I can get you a rough address for reference.
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Yeah, I'm walking back the car. I hope my cell phone's in there and I can figure it out from there.
04:57
20 to 1, an approximate address for your reference in Arrowmet is going to be 15600 Hatch Avenue.
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600 Hatch.
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Affirmative, 15600 Hats.
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For 27 to 1, I'm at Med1.
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What's that?
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
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LZ: Landing Zone
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10-4: Acknowledgement / Message received
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Med 1: Priority 1 medical response
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ALS: Advanced Life Support (paramedic-level medical response)
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Location mentioned:
Near Marlboro St NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49534
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