Woman with COPD struggles to breathe at home

Heard on: Grants Pass Fire Rescue

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Medic Seven 7501 for BR One (number withheld) Rancho Vista Drive.

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Five Hundred and One Medic Seven for BR One breathing problem (number withheld) Rancho Vista Drive, south of East Jones Creek Road.

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Respond on Seven Thousand Five Hundred.

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7504 will handle from station one.

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Last unit on rural metro, re-advised.

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I had traffic on another channel.

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7504 will handle the BR1 from station one.

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7504 handling the breathing problem from station one.

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Medic Seven, call notes.

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Go for Seven.

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Seven seventy-five oh four, you are responding for a sixty-four year old female.

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She is conscious with difficulty breathing, chest tightness, audible noises, and a history of COPD.

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The symptoms onset overnight and have gotten worse this morning.

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The inhaler and breathing treatments have been used with minimal relief.

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No previous cardiac history.

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Seven copies.

2026-11-10 17:39 UTC

Medical Emergency

Rancho Vista Dr, Grants Pass, OR 97526

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As discussed during the dispatch call, emergency crews were dispatched to a home near Rancho Vista Drive and East Jones Creek Road for a reported breathing problem involving a 64-year-old woman with chest tightness, audible breathing noises, and a history of COPD. Her symptoms reportedly worsened overnight and did not improve much with her inhaler or breathing treatments.