Person on home oxygen has severe breathing difficulty, Kingwood WV


A person near Chestnut Street in Kingwood on home oxygen is experiencing severe breathing difficulty. The caller is hard to understand and may have taken an excessive amount of medication. Emergency medical services are responding.
Audio|Source: Preston County Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
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The emergency medical call, any of a medical medical medical breathing difficulty,
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near Chestnut St in Kingwood, time of alert, 1037.
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6.83 in route to the Arthago.
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2.83, you're in Route 1037. You're going to be responding to 4F Road in Arthurdale, Rick.
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Good.
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6.83 is going to be a 54-year-old male caller's advising that a hospice was there last evening, gave him a dose of the medication of the name that I can't pronounce this in the cat, Rick.
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Okay, go ahead.
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The caller was his brother stated that whenever he arrived on scene this morning, the pill bottles were empty.
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I'm sure of what happened after everyone left last night, but they do believe that it's a potential overdose.
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Okay.
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On center medic 6-8-2 and out.
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6-8-2, you're at 1039. You'll be going to near Chestnut St in Kingwood for a bringing difficulty call. Stand by for size-up.
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We're clear on size-up. We've got the cat open.
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Okay.
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It is very hard to understand the caller for this call.
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He does advise that he is on two liters of oxygen and is having difficulty breathing. That's basically everything I can get from him right now.
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I'm not sure if he's hard of hearing or if he's got other issues going on.
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Okay.
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Near Chestnut St, Kingwood, WV 26537
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