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Fire at Funeral Home; Patient Rescued Near Bridge 

audio iconFire & Arson, Medical Emergency
Westerly, RI
Emergency responders are helping a patient who cannot walk and need a stretcher at a location near a small bridge. They are also managing the evacuation of a museum nearby using buses. Additionally, there is a small fire in a mulch pile at a local funeral home, which is confirmed to not be threatening the building.
Audio|Source: Southern Rhode Island and Southeastern Connecticut Fire and EMS
03:2

Transcript:
I'm walking up to her now. I'll let you know in two minutes. Defense[2]. Defense of T-1[1]. Defense of T1. One, (name withheld), go ahead. Chief, my apologies, just confirming if that situation has resolved itself, we are still operating on that team. My apologies, we have cleared the same. We're trying to get everybody out of the Lighthouse Museum without bringing the buses down to Stonington Point. We put the buses in Stonington Commons. Everybody's going to have to walk up from there to get on the bus. We can't have them down on diving and school street. Chief, Chief, I will make a note and close out the call for you at 1651. Roger, thank you. (name withheld), did your copy his last message if he needed anything? Negative, (name withheld), and I wasn't able to get it on the playback. Dispense, 2774[3]. Go ahead, just that's that. 7-4-2[4] is on the scene inquiring if you're going to need any equipment. and or if the patient is able to walk out to the rescue. Negative. I'm managing their head right now if they could bring the stretcher through that little scroll bridge, we're right down to the bottom of the steps. Do you copy? They're going to need the stretcher. According to Westwood. 5.0 actually. (name withheld). (name withheld) little funeral home. It's going to be a small mulch pile on fire. Closer to the street, no extension to the building. Fresh fire. 1111 Boston McRourden. (name withheld) little funeral home. I think before a small mulks pile on fire to be closest to the street, no extension of the building. They're just back to 1654. (name withheld), in service.

Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
T-1: Team or Tactical Unit 1 (likely internal reference)
[2]
Defense: Protective or defensive action (fire/EMS context)
[3]
2774: Unit number
[4]
7-4-2: Unit number

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Westerly, RI

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