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Boy suffers severe arm cut from pocket knife injury, Amherst VA

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Near Cherry Hill Rd, Amherst, VA 24521

A 5-year-old boy near Cherry Hill Rd in Amherst suffered a severe arm cut from a pocket knife. His mother controlled heavy bleeding by applying pressure and using a belt as a tourniquet. Emergency medical services are responding to the scene.

Audio|Source: Amherst County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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Region 1, new unit near Cherry Hill Rd for a 5-year-old male, bleeding profusely,
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1615.
00:19
Amherst, Medic 3.9, I'll have that call covered.
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104, Medic 3.9.
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Mother is holding pressure, trying to get the bleeding under control.
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Okay.
00:51
Does she indicate what he caught it on?
00:56
Hey, he got hold to a pocket knife. Okay,
01:04
yeah. (name withheld), it was it?
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Medic 1-7.
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Medic 1-7.
01:22
Yes, ma'am, we have a lot.
01:23
We'll go from this vote, General.
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Medic 390.
01:35
Hammer, 390.
01:38
Stry would be advised that they have put a belt as a tourniquets on his arm at that time that it happened.

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Near Cherry Hill Rd, Amherst, VA 24521
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