Paramedic stretcher battery fails at Northside Hospital, St. Petersburg FL
Other Non-Crime EventAt Northside Hospital, paramedics reported that the stretcher battery died, requiring manual operation. They requested a replacement battery and managed to continue transporting the patient despite the difficulty.
Audio|Source: Pinellas County Sheriff and EMS, Clearwater / St. Petersburg Police
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Transcript:
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Our stretcher battery has died.
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We have the new stretcher.
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I thought it was supposed to be charging with the system, but it is not.
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Currently we are manually doing everything with the stretcher.
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Okay. When you're complete there at Northside, um...
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We'll get you a replacement battery.
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In the meantime, 438's there if you want to trade batteries with them if you need to use the function currently.
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438 has a, if it's there, it's all with you.
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They have an old structure, we have the new structure, but we just manually loaded it.
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So we're fine, we haven't loaded.
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It's just, it's difficult to load, obviously.
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Okay.
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We're managing.
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Okay, yep, we'll begin by the, from there, I'll just ready to headquarters and get you a new battery that's charged up then.
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Copy, sorry for the inconveniences.
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No problem.
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Location mentioned:
Near 49th St N, St. Petersburg, FL 33709
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