Welfare check after woman reports overdose call, Brooke County WV
Medical EmergencyOfficers and EMS responded to a welfare check near Purgatory Lane for a 60-year-old woman who called her doctor's answering service saying she had taken too many Xanax pills and then hung up. Attempts to reach her back were unsuccessful, prompting emergency services to check on her well-being at the given address.
Audio|Source: Northern Panhandle WV Public Safety
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Transcript:
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I had a call from a doctor's office, a doctor (name withheld).
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He states that his answering service contacted him.
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The 60-year-old female, one of his patients,
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called his answering service and stated she believed she took too many Xanax.
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Then she hung up.
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They tried to contact her back with no answer.
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Where else she could be checked on? They gave an address near Purgatory Lane.
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107 dispatch.
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I'll take care of that.
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Do you have EMS en route?
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Well, we're not sure what's going on if this is actually true.
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Again, this came from the doctor's office answering service to the doctor.
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107 dispatch.
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107, go ahead.
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I'm en route to the office near Purgatory's Lost Stone Church, correct?
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For a minute.
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Dispatch to 122.
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202.
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207 dispatch, do you have another call?
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I do.
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All right, what is it? Because we're getting people cleared up, but 122 is going to be on this trip.
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For, um... Forty-five caliber drive showing guntry.
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Coffee. Showing a general alarm, burger alarm.
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104. I'll check on this medical, then I'll head up there.
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104, I'm showing 127 on that mental hygiene.
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You said 122 is going to go? No.
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24 will be free when the other two units get there to take possession of that patient.
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For now, he's waiting with them on the available unit right now.
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For now.
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We have a welfare check for the Sheriff's Department, near Purgatory Lane.
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10-4[1], I just walked in so I wasn't sure what was going on.
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121, 108 patrol,
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break, 121-107.
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Good.
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Sir, I'm going to try to help you.
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I can hand to that metal course.
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You want me to?
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Time 4, I'll take that alarm then.
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120.
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124, go ahead.
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Attention,
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Stanchard, Bethlehem, Ohio County EMS.
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I have a welfare check for the Ohio County Sheriff's Department, near Purgatory Lane.
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This is for a female that called her doctor, and said she took too many Xanax and then hung up.
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Sheriff's department's in after that.
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Brooke County, WV
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