Mesa rescue team lowers patient from tower safely, Mesa AZ


Fire and rescue personnel in Mesa performed a technical operation to safely lower a patient from a tall tower structure. The team carefully controlled the descent to avoid hazards and ensured the patient's safety throughout the process.
Audio|Source: Mesa Fire, Gilbert Fire, Queen Creek Fire
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Transcript:
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with his hands, not the rope, and then he'll fill the flex of the tower for the initial dissent.
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Dara has history of Etonal youth.
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I'll be the late for my soon.
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The patient.
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The 10-1[1] copies pretension was complete with a safety check.
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We're ready to lower the victim down slow.
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To use the commanding copy, we're starting to lower the patient.
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We're also going to hold all non-essential traffic during the quintetion operation.
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Command copies, starting to lower the patient alarm, copy on the timer, no essential, non-essential traffic at this point until the patient's all the way down.
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The alarm copies 1117.
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Attendant 1 to rescue.
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If you can lower initially very slow, because he's on a sharp edge of angle iron on his butt, that we need to clear him from the tower.
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Rescue copy is.
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You will lower slowly. Slowly.
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It's still sitting on the railing.
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You'd have the vector if you want to get them up off the system a little bit.
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We're going to work on pickup slack and then get them over that railing.
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Let us know when he is on his system.
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Attendant 1 copies, we're going to, you guys are going to raise them on the system.
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Attendant 1 to rescue, he is not on the system.
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That's as far as you can pull the tension to our angle of our anchors.
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Rescue copies, he is on his system.
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Lieutenant 1 to rescue down slow.
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The rescue is down slow.
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Attendant 1 to rescue slow.
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The rescue is down slow.
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and face the railing just for the initial descent to help himself get off the pet hazards.
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Rescue copies.
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Good call. Turn them around facing you to take that pitchin off.
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7 in order to attendant 1.
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We need the victim to be completely off that catwalk and on the system.
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So you guys are going to have to give him a little assistance before we go down.
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Attendant 1 copy, that's where our attempting to do is to help support him.
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We're going to help him use his legs and support himself as well as we lower him into the system.
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50, sign 10.
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All right.
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You send that 801? All right.
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You guys tension the system to help support him and that way he can control himself away from the initial catch hazard.
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Copy that. This is going to stand and we're going to tension the system at this time.
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Under rescue if you'll advise and you have attention all the way?
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957[2] North. We have a vector in place.
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We're going to start to release the vector if you're ready to send him over that transition.
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Attendant-1 copies.
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We're going to have patients start leaning out and putting his weight completely on the system.
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957[2] North copies, we're going to start to release vector.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
10-1: Transmission completed, pretension check
[2]
957: Rescue operation in progress
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Location mentioned:
N Country Club Dr, Mesa, AZ
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