70-year-old man falls and has difficulty breathing

Heard on: Hackensack NJ Fire Dispatch

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Engine two medical.

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Attention engine two, responding (number withheld) Prospect Avenue apartment (number withheld) on the difficulty breathing.

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Attention two, (number withheld) Prospect Avenue apartment (number withheld) , Essex Street to Thompson for the difficulty breathing, 630 .

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Engine two is responding.

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Engine two, six thirty-two.

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Dispatch, engine two.

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Engine two.

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Update, county is reporting it's going to be a fall victim also with difficulty breathing.

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Seventy-year-old male party.

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Received.

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Engine two is on the scene.

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We'll be establishing Prospect Avenue command.

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We'll be investigating Apartment (number withheld) .

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You can show HMC BLS arriving at the same time.

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See your Prospect Avenue command with BLS 600 and thirty-five.

2026-11-08 11:29 UTC

Medical Emergency

Prospect Ave, Hackensack, NJ 07601

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As discussed during the dispatch call, emergency crews responded to a reported fall with difficulty breathing involving a 70-year-old man at an apartment on Prospect Avenue in Hackensack. Engine 2 and a basic life support unit arrived and established command at the scene.