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Stolen yellow Superior Ambulance taken from a rehab center in Rockford, tracked eastbound on I‑290 with lights activated and later passing Harlem Avenue; tracking lost by Elmhurst.Cook County IL

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audio iconMotor Vehicle Theft
I-290, Illinois

According to the dispatch call, stolen yellow Superior Ambulance taken from a rehab center in Rockford, tracked eastbound on I‑290 with lights activated and later passing Harlem Avenue; tracking lost by Elmhurst.

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03:26
Transcript:
00:00
All right, Elmhurst had a stolen ambulance from Superior Ambulance Company.
00:06
They're currently tracking it.
00:07
I-290 eastbound at 25th Avenue, eastbound 290 at 25th Avenue, with the lights activated.
00:15
If anyone has eyes on it, I don't have further details than that, but give me a few.
00:23
6409 bullies drop on the dock.
00:25
Yeah, 10.
00:31
50,700 Adam on 311.
00:37
Okay, they're having to have the plate on that ambulance, too, because it appears they never swept out an ISPERN flash for it.
00:45
Um, I'm going to play.
00:46
All right.
00:52
All right with it.
00:58
721454. All 6-4.
01:02
7214-5-4. Perfect, thank you.
01:09
And PH2, you guys available.
01:12
We're going to that.
01:14
All right, perfect, thank you.
01:27
304 north. All right, zero four north.
01:31
Numbers on the 953 red line, one north and one south.
01:35
Yeah, one zero six six seven and one zero six seven zero.
01:48
All right, and everybody just used caution.
01:51
This is actually, this all started in Rockford.
01:53
It was the resident of a rehab center who stole it, and it's going to be a yellow ambulance, yellow superior ambulance.
02:23
73.83, Frank?
02:25
7383.
02:26
We get two events for Howard Station, upper, and lower.
02:30
Yeah, that's 10682 and 10684.
02:36
2385,
02:41
Frank. 785, Frank.
02:43
735, Frank.
02:45
At 7808 State Street, can you roll the ambulance for a car accident and after a paper car?
02:51
You said, where the 7th of state or 71st State?
02:55
79 State, 79 State.
02:57
79th State, okay, down for...
03:04
State doesn't have an ambulance?
03:06
No, not yet.
03:10
Elmhurst was tracking it with the company, but they are no longer in contact with them.
03:19
That ambulance just passed, Harlem.
03:22
In Harlem. There we go, he's been 290 passing Harlem, 10.

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