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Welfare check on transient outside convenience store, Tacoma WA
Medical EmergencyEmergency responders responded to a welfare check at a convenience store where employees reported a transient with a blue sleeping bag outside. The employees requested confirmation of the individual's wellbeing and asked that the person be moved along if they are okay.
Audio|Heard on: Tacoma Police Dispatch - North
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01:17
Transcript:
00:00
These sector houses a welfare checkout that is Super Smoke near 65th Avenue at 1424.
00:08
Impal 3P2 and Powell 449, you guys can cancel.
00:11
Copy the Welfare Check.
00:14
I appreciate.
00:17
It will be outside the Super Smoke near 65th Avenue in front by the transient and the blue sleeping bag color.
00:27
One of them moved along, they're not responding.
00:34
All right.
00:37
Three.
00:38
Fourteen twenty-four.
00:44
It's just call.
00:46
Go ahead.
00:48
Is that an employee?
00:52
Correct?
00:55
They're not wanting the subject moved along, they want a welfare trip.
00:59
No, they've been asking for him to be moved along, but he just barely moved.
01:06
Okay,
01:07
can you clarify saying he wants to make sure he's okay?
01:13
Yeah, they want to make sure he's okay and then if he is then to have him move along.
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Location mentioned:
65th Ave NE, Tacoma, WA 98422
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