Male heard screaming for help near Riverside Park river, Sumner WA
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Medical EmergencyAccording to the dispatch call, a male was heard screaming for help near the river at Riverside Park. The caller reported the sounds coming from the opposite side of the river. Authorities are considering using a drone and swift-water rescue to locate and assist him.
Audio|Heard on: Pierce County Sheriff Dispatch - East
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02:22
Transcript:
00:00
I heard the guy screaming for help a couple seconds ago and sounds like he's getting weaker.
00:04
He might be down on the river banks or something with the flood.
00:09
Can we get to see if there's a drone available that wants to meet at Riverside Park and overfly?
00:18
Monitoring.
00:23
Message Check County, do you want me to preemptively inquire for Swift or
00:29
found something first and confirm he's actually in the water?
00:37
I guess if there's a Swift Water unit logged in that wants to look at it, but we don't
00:42
have much other than a general location of Riverside Park at this point, but the guy says he's still here in the calls for help.
00:49
Transit 60C Lee, monitoring on primary.
00:53
Right, please.
00:55
Can you take a peek at their call, please, and see if that something you want to preemptively advise with them?
01:03
Yeah, can you, I'll have been looking at that.
01:05
Can you just check with the old one or some there and see if they have a drone they can fly down?
01:09
Yep, I and send a message out.
01:15
All right, two, 66, can you check that one.
01:22
Okay.
01:28
It's confirming there's no unit on East primary with a drone available tonight.
01:35
I saw the teachers say there.
01:41
I'll just confirm the best place to hear this guy at this point is from the DMX park.
01:47
Correct. The RP is calling from the west side of the water.
01:50
Across the river just north of Bowman-Hilton, he said it sounds like it's coming from the Frisbee Park.
01:56
He tried to call back to the guy, but he thinks the guy's too far away to hear him.
02:04
Okay, I'll wait on just like, can't?
02:07
Radio County 3-8-2.
02:12
Okay,
02:14
sir.
02:15
It's negative county wide on a drone.
02:18
I don't know if you want to just plan on grabbing the traffic one and heading over that way.
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