Authorities check welfare of child near apartment window, West Springfield VA
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, police and fire personnel in West Springfield responded to an apartment complex after a caller reported seeing a child visible at or near an open window. Units gained access to check on the child's welfare, coordinating between multiple floors to locate the correct apartment. The situation appeared to involve a possible welfare concern, and responders ensured the child's safety.
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02:44
Transcript:
00:00
We're at apartment near West right now trying to get an answer out the door.
00:03
Is the child still in the back?
00:07
That's affirmative, the caller is still watching.
00:09
The child is on the backside.
00:10
They were flagging down this argument.
00:14
We have a master key for the house.
00:17
We're not getting answers, so we're going to open the door.
00:18
Okay?
00:20
That's right.
00:22
Let's go with the channel.
00:24
41, I copy.
00:25
They have a master key.
00:26
Go ahead and hold channel for them.
00:29
Their intentional unit channels may be restricted.
00:31
1617.
00:33
425 trailer.
00:35
Go ahead.
00:37
Master key.
00:40
Right now.
00:43
We could get FD to come up here and help as well.
00:47
You're right, you need fire department to come out there to do what?
00:51
The door open.
00:53
Correct.
00:56
425 Charlie.
00:58
425 Charlie?
01:00
We're making entry right now.
01:02
Both fire department is advising it might be floor nine.
01:07
Okay, fire side's advising it may be floor nine, is that correct?
01:11
Say that again, please.
01:12
They're making entry into an apartment, but they believe it per the fire department may be floor nine.
01:20
Yeah, it's just the room right above it.
01:21
We're not upstairs one right now.
01:25
Direct.
01:28
We're 30 alpha. Are they still seeing him on the balcony?
01:31
Let me ask.
01:34
425 Charlie.
01:36
Go ahead.
01:38
On floor nine, he's going to be on floor eight.
01:41
And let me try and figure out what the building number is.
01:44
I can see the child over here at the window.
01:47
Okay.
01:51
I'm at the building nearby right now.
01:54
He's down on the next building that we breached.
01:58
He's just hanging out the window right now.
02:02
Four hundred and 40, brother.
02:03
We're going to be breaching.
02:05
Fire Department's going to be breaching another apartment.
02:10
Eight hundred and one,
02:12
Four hundred and twenty-five Charlie.
02:14
Yeah, it's not a balcony.
02:15
It's a window.
02:16
It's a wide open window with no coverage of the screen.
02:21
Correct.
02:23
Watch for those units breaching if they can wait until that child is inside of the window.
02:27
That would be good so they don't scare my family.
02:30
So I don't remember what they were wearing, but it's a young child.
02:36
Not sure what they were wearing.
02:37
It's just a young child at the window.
02:41
Four for Bravo, you direct on watch four Bravo's traffic.
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West Springfield, VA
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