Man suffers fractured leg in lake skiing accident, La Fontaine IN


A 40-year-old man fractured his left leg while skiing on a lake near La Fontaine, Indiana. He is conscious and breathing, waiting on a dock at the south side of the lake for emergency responders.
Audio|Source: Kosciusko County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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Look at their names. Station 17, first responders, signal 8, (number withheld), head and lake, crash rates of Shelby Trives.
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It's going to be a fractured bone, 40-year-old male, but in a skiing accident.
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He's advising it's just, he believes it's going to be a break in left leg.
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He's conscious breathing.
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They're advising if you can go to the south side of the lake, there's going to be a dock there that you can pick him up.
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We're at Station 17, first responders, signal 8, (number withheld), head in lake, cross-rays, it is a fractured bone, 40-year-old male, involved in a skiing accident.
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He believes it's a break in left leg.
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He's conscious breathing,
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confirming if you can go to the south side of the lake, there's a dock where you can pick him up.
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Mike, freezing route.
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Station 17 is en route.
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This passion is going to see engine 17.
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Smash Battalion 13.
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Smash Battalion 13.
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Then you confirm that the subject is out of the water and in a boat at that dock.
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The patient is out of the water, waiting at the dock on a boat.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you.
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And then right to the fracture wound.
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Just for your 1043, if you want to clear, (number withheld) is the patient that is on the opposite side, the south side of the lake waiting at the dock.
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Freeze, sir.
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La Fontaine, IN 46940
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