Welfare check finds person in costume near Salt Creek, Lincoln NE
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, police and emergency crews conducted a welfare check near Salt Creek Roadway and Antelope Valley Parkway in Lincoln after reports of a person wearing a Santa suit lying in the median. Responding units found the individual and confirmed it was not Santa.
Audio|Heard on: Lincoln Police and Fire, Lancaster County Sheriff
Listen to dispatch call
02:30
Transcript:
00:00
Got a check welfare,
00:02
Salt Creek Roadway and Antelope Valley Parkway just east of in the median.
00:07
Passerby is calling in saying there's someone in a Santa suit curled up in the fetal position in the median,
00:13
just east of Salt Creek Roadway and Antelope Valley Parkway.
00:19
Fifteen, one for both.
00:22
Thank you.
00:27
Engine 16 on location.
00:34
Case number right here.
00:39
Case number is (number withheld).
00:45
(number withheld).
00:50
Okay, thank you.
00:51
You're welcome.
00:57
Section twelve with eleven is here.
01:01
(number withheld).
01:08
Go ahead.
01:15
11 HBO,
01:17
and I've taken care of that 13 already.
01:20
Thank you, thank you for your time.
01:22
Engine 16, medic five patient type.
01:25
Pan side (number withheld).
01:26
(number withheld).
01:28
(number withheld)?
01:31
Do we have any MSP units on I-80 west of this location? I just had a vehicle drive dark that merged onto the interstate.
01:46
I can call them and let them know.
01:48
Did you get a description at all?
01:53
It's a red four-door sedan.
01:55
That's the best I got.
01:57
I just caught it out of the corner of my eye.
01:59
Okay, tell them that I will call them and let them know.
02:06
(number withheld), both 20.
02:10
And 19.
02:15
Sixty-eight code one HBO.
02:19
Twenty-three forty-four.
02:21
Nineteen forty-three.
02:22
I think I'll be out with them near 21st Street and Salt Creek Roadway, and it is not Santa.
02:27
Received near 21st Street and Salt Creek Roadway.
02:29
It's not Santa.
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Location mentioned:
Salt Creek Roadway & N Antelope Valley Pkwy, Lincoln, NE 68508
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