Emergency crews search for man with breathing and mental issues, Harrisonburg VA
Medical EmergencyEmergency responders searched multiple locations near West Gay Street and other nearby areas for a 43-year-old man experiencing altered mental status and shortness of breath. The man gave conflicting information about his location near places including the ABC store on East Market Street, Books & Coffee, and a bridge near North Main Street and West A Street. After investigation, responders were unable to find the patient at the initially reported locations.
Audio|Source: Harrisonburg Fire & EMS
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Transcript:
00:00
It was 46, I should responding for secondary break, ready to engine 5.
00:05
Do it.
00:11
Engine 5, caller is now advising there at the ABC store on East Market.
00:18
We are unable to obtain a plot.
00:21
We're still trying to investigate further.
00:24
Okay, we'll check this area here, just let us know if we can find out anything else.
00:28
Radio is direct.
00:30
Where you do, Amul, 46.
00:32
46, go ahead.
00:39
NALS 46, you respond to 1187 Westmoreland Drive.
00:42
We have 43-year-old male altered, shortness of breath, playing of pain in his legs and the tips.
00:49
Engine 3, respond to word direct.
00:52
Engine 3 responded with N-L 46 direct.
01:00
Ready to engine five.
01:02
Caller is now advising they're going to be by the books and coffee.
01:05
We're obtaining a patient description of what they're wearing for identification.
01:17
Apprentice responding to Spain, Westwater Street.
01:22
Caller is now stating that he is by the ABC store on Martins.
01:25
He does hear sirens in the background.
01:27
He will be wearing a brown shirt and black shorts.
01:29
It is possible.
01:30
He hears the apprentice that are responding to Westmoreland Drive on a different call for service.
01:36
All right, engine five to radio.
01:39
You can go ahead and show engine five available and put the closest engine on up there, the ABC, Stork Martins.
01:46
Radio is direct, showing engine pad available, placing the next closest engine.
01:56
Radio is Serr 40.
01:58
Sir 40, go ahead.
02:05
For clarification, is the patient reporting that they are at the ABC store in East Market?
02:16
Greatest, sir, 48.
02:17
Patient has advised us of three different locations.
02:21
We are doing our best to obtain the exact location.
02:25
I first, they advised Westwater Street, and then they advised the East Market Street, but now they're advising that they're buys the books and coffee, which is in another location as well.
02:38
So we're still trying to obtain.
02:40
Okay. That's 46 on location.
02:42
Okay.
02:43
You can show us a location at the Water Street deck, but, I mean, they're not at this location.
02:55
Yeah,
02:57
on location at the Water Street deck.
03:00
He did say that he heard sirens and the call-taker could hear sirens in the background at some point.
03:07
He thinks he's maybe on North Main Street, possibly near West A Street, he's advising he's on a bridge on a bench.
03:18
We're still trying to investigate.
03:21
It was 41 to radio.
03:23
Nothing found it at the ABC store.
03:26
Price, nothing found it on the ABC store on Main Street.
03:32
Radio is direct.
03:33
Both apparatus.
03:34
We have just obtained a phase two plot.
03:37
It's going to be near West Gay Street, near West Gay Street.
03:42
It's a positive record.
03:43
It shows around near West Gay.
03:47
any time showing you in row on this meeting there.
03:50
OB event, near Vine Street, Unit 302 Harrisonburg.
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Engine 4 and Ambulance 44.
04:12
Respond O.B.
04:14
Event 251. Vine Street Unit 302-Harrisonburg Cross Streets, North Main Street and Mount Clinton Pike and Legislature Court operate TAC 8.
04:33
24, you're responding, 251, Vine Street, Unit 302, 302, or a 22-year-old female prostitical breathing,
04:41
is 41 weeks OB, seeing that she did go to the OB yesterday and they'd send her home, was having contraction, not feel her anymore.
04:50
All information makes pain to Spanish language lines.
04:57
In was 41 radio.
04:59
Give us 41, go ahead.
05:05
We arrived at near West Gay Street.
05:08
There is no patient here.
05:16
It's 41. Radio is direct.
05:19
All we're saying they do see a piece of apparatus.
05:22
They are saying a pen to turn West Null Drive.
05:25
41-0-0 drive.
05:27
Vigestion can you repeat.
05:32
C0 O drive, break.
05:35
Intervisor on location.
05:41
41's on location.
05:43
It's 411 on location. It's 411 on location.
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Location mentioned:
Near W Gay St, Harrisonburg, VA 22802
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