Medical emergency near Union St, Portland ME
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, emergency crews responded to a possible medical incident near Union Street in Portland involving an elderly woman who was reportedly weak, vomiting, and not breathing normally. Fire and ambulance units including Medic 2, Engine 3, and other personnel were dispatched. The call was classified at the Charlie response level. The situation appears to have started as a fire alarm activation before being identified as a medical call.
Audio|Heard on: Cumberland County Public Safety
Listen to dispatch call
03:47
Transcript:
00:00
Fire alarm from ambulance forty-eight.
00:03
Fire alarm in three, ambulance forty-eight.
00:07
Oh, set purpose to paper.
00:13
Repeat your last two.
00:19
Copy all set at check.
00:21
Puffing for transport.
00:25
We've got a vehicle leaving near Gorham Road.
00:28
I gotta find a reason to stop, but if someone wants to start heading up this way?
00:38
Tip work.
00:44
Unit 36, do you want us to start that way?
00:46
Tip work.
00:52
Inbound or outbound 22?
00:58
It's waiting to pull out in traffic.
01:00
I'll let you know.
01:02
Thank you.
01:09
Unit 36 is going to be outbound.
01:12
Copy.
01:26
Area negative contact that vehicle and close it out northward.
01:34
Unit 722, go ahead.
01:37
Hi, (name withheld), can you change this to thirty-five south?
01:44
Five, one for ambulance forty-eight.
01:47
Fire alarm at three, ambulance forty-eight going to me about starting zero.
01:54
Copy, there is a med starting zero.
02:01
Unit 22 will be ten eighty-three in a moment with that first speed.
02:04
It's going to be New Hampshire (number withheld).
02:09
First off the plate for Gorham and Beech Ridge.
02:15
Unit 22, I'm just getting on a car.
02:39
Powery Beach and Monastery with (number withheld).
02:53
Fire alarm from utility 46.
02:55
Engine,
02:57
Elderly female is weak and vomiting, not breathing normally, Charlie level.
03:03
You show unit 46 clear returning.
03:06
Ladder 4104, engine 3 unit position to take that.
03:37
Fire alarm transmitting: medical 1 for medic 2 and engine 3 to near Union Street for an elderly female.
03:43
Vomiting, weak, not breathing normally.
03:45
It's a Charlie level.
03:46
Time of the call sixteen twenty-eight.
Disclaimer:
This transcript is automatically generated by AI from live dispatch audio. Dispatch communications may include background noise, overlapping speakers, or rapidly evolving situations, and automated transcription may not capture all details or context.
Location mentioned:
Union St, Portland, ME 04101
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