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Medical emergency near Big Hill Rd in LexingtonLexington VA

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Big Hill Rd, Lexington, VA 24450

As discussed during the dispatch call, emergency responders were dispatched to a possible medical emergency near Big Hill Road in Lexington involving an elderly man experiencing respiratory distress and vomiting blood. He was conscious and breathing but short of breath. The incident involved rescue and company units operating on a designated channel.

Audio|Heard on: Rockbridge County Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
00:00
Company One and Rescue Four respond to a medical call near Big Hill Road in Lexington.
00:08
Cross streets are Patterson Hollow Road at Honey Hollow Road.
00:31
Rescue 4, Company 1, near Big Hill Road, medical call.
00:36
Rockbridge ECC (number withheld).
00:45
PCC, you can show 5-2 responding to Big Hill.
00:49
5-2 responding to near Big Hill Road for an 80-year-old male, approximately 170 pounds.
00:55
He is spitting up blood.
00:56
He is breathing and able to talk.
00:57
He is at this time experiencing shortness of breath.
01:00
No other medical history.
01:02
No chest pain and no history of heart attacks.
01:06
Operate Ops Two Five Forty Seven.
01:11
AC Four Seven responding.
01:14
Forty Seven responding to near Big Hill Road.
01:17
Eighty-year-old male, about 170 pounds, spitting up blood.
01:20
He is breathing and having shortness of breath, operating Ops Two Five Forty Seven.

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Big Hill Rd, Lexington, VA 24450

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