Drone disrupts medical evacuation; security breach reported, Amarillo TX
Medical Emergency, Fire & ArsonEmergency responders coordinated evacuation of multiple injured patients by ambulance with law enforcement escorts in Amarillo, TX. A drone was flying over the area, disrupting operations and preventing a medical helicopter from landing. Authorities found gate 27 open, indicating a possible security breach related to the drone operator. The drone was downed and the operator taken into custody, allowing responders to continue evacuation and medical transport safely.
Audio|Source: Amarillo Police and Fire
09:6
Transcript:
00:00
this is Fire Ops, I was clear on your last traffic.
00:05
We're waiting on ops or escorts to get those patients out of here.
00:10
Ops, this is Fire Ops.
00:13
Do you have escorts for these ambulances to get these patients out of here?
00:18
62 color up to call back at (number withheld) duly and advised a suspect from earlier's return is to the houses away from this address unknown race now with wearing black and white we have a lot so off seven to life three
00:40
44 items at 40,
00:43
52 item and 342 are in routing location for staging. 1-3, go ahead.
00:50
Fire dispatch to the APD units. If you're on the exercise, if you'll move the tack four.
00:57
Offs up, the Y3 be transporting one to red to you.
01:02
Clear waiting escort.
01:05
Officerial left tool.
01:08
Command, this is triage.
01:10
We need to get the escort out here to get these ambulances out. I now have four ambulances,
01:18
one red, two yellow of the piece.
01:20
Full ready to go.
01:24
Command, Clear, you need people for escort.
01:28
Yes, you command.
01:31
Hi.
01:33
Five, seven units 23.
01:37
Triage, this is Fire Ops.
01:39
Just confirming that you have Life 3, 12, and 24 with one red and two yellow patients apiece waiting on escorts.
01:50
That is correct.
01:52
Also add in Life 20.
01:53
One red, two yellows.
01:58
AFC, just an update on the drone situation,
02:02
I just saw if it fly over 1331, it appeared to fly from the direction of the Fire Training Center.
02:11
We're going to go investigate.
02:12
Okay.
02:14
Please let law enforcement know to search around the Fire Training Center area, the east side of 1301, please.
02:24
Okay.
02:27
Fire Office, this is Command.
02:29
I got three APD units that is your way for us.
02:36
Command, this is FireOps. I copy your traffic on sending escorts. Thank you. We do have one escort over here.
02:46
I guess there was confusion on who he was, but he's about to escort those three ambulances out right now.
02:58
Here special this command guard.
03:06
AMOPS 3, we have found gate 27 wide open,
03:12
perhaps a security breach. Can you please notify law enforcement and we this at gate 27 pertaining to the drone operator?
03:24
Off 7 based.
03:27
5-7.
03:30
Live Star, this is commanding.
03:33
Can you give me a favor? Just stand her and see if we have any other calls over here that would give me any indication. I have to watch there's so much blood over here.
03:43
I don't show any calls at this address. Let me double check.
03:54
I appreciate it. Thank you.
03:58
Fire operations is command.
04:02
Command,
04:04
this is fire ups.
04:05
Go ahead.
04:08
Lossarters trying to hold you to D-Med 28.
04:11
D-MED 28. D-MED-28.
04:14
Five, seven, I checked the past two weeks. I don't show any calls for any agency at that address.
04:22
I'm clear. I appreciate it. Thank you.
04:25
Careful.
04:27
Our vehicle and this guy... Command, this fire ops were clear, B-Met 28, we were monitored, but I guess we didn't hear their traffic.
04:35
Command, be advised,
04:39
we just need one person, one escort at the entrance of Echo,
04:46
and we can do a line of site.
04:49
escort between here and to get off the movement area. So I didn't, I wasn't aware, but we didn't, I guess we have enough people now we could set up a line of site escort for all the ambulances to be loaded and get out of here quickly.
05:09
35 to 43.
05:12
Go ahead.
05:14
I'm not finding you, where's your car parked?
05:19
Fire off of this commandment. I'm clear that you're going to have an easy to escort to echo through line-side transmission.
05:29
Come out to Thurton Pullman, I'm going to go north of the tracks and pull into that company where they work on the railroad cars,
05:41
see if they got a road to get the back there to it.
05:45
Okay.
05:47
Two-five-three.
05:49
Father.
05:51
He'll be on Route 226 in Linda at Paramount Square Apartments. It's going to be on it located stolen vehicle.
06:00
Oh man, this is Fireoffs, that's correct. We don't need just a bunch of extra bodies. We just need a line of sight, and I was unaware there was one sitting up there at Echo. I couldn't see.
06:13
But as long as we have one person up there, they can just line aside it, and the ambulance can load and go without having all these extra law enforcement.
06:26
Okay.
06:28
They did advise didn't make a report yet, but would like to make a report then also that it was south.
06:35
Fireoffs, this is Triage.
06:38
We have an escort ready to take him out gate 22, or do you want him to go through the station?
06:47
Ten Fort.
06:52
Triage, this is FireOps. I'm not sure if it's 21 or 22.
06:58
I'll check with command.
07:01
Triage, this is,
07:03
we can do a line-of-site escort as long as there's somebody at Echo from ops or law enforcement. We can get those ambulances out of here faster.
07:15
Are you clear on that traffic?
07:18
Triage is clear. I've already let the ambulances know. They're going to line a side out of here.
07:25
Fire ops, this is command,
07:27
or I mean, excuse me,
07:29
triage, this is fire ops. I copy your traffic.
07:32
Command, this is FireOps.
07:34
Could you confirm with staging which date these ambulances need to go out of if it's 21 or 22?
07:41
22.
07:45
Command, this is FireOps.
07:48
Copy gate 22.
07:50
501, command.
07:53
Triage, this is FireOps.
07:56
Could you get Engine Pives crew to set up a landing zone, please,
07:59
for that last door?
08:02
501 Command.
08:06
Triage, this is FireOps.
08:13
Airport ops, this is fire comming, or fire ops.
08:20
Go ahead for airport office,
08:25
this is fire office, so we,
08:28
we have confirmation that that drone is down and we have the person in custody.
08:36
Native, so waiting for the operator to be located.
08:43
1 command,
08:44
the drone is still circling above the crash scene.
08:51
Fire ops is clear on that traffic. We cannot, Lifestar cannot land until we get that drone out of here and the operator identify.
09:00
Two-five, we'll send me at the radio shots for a minute.
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