Woman floats westbound in canal near medical complex
Medical EmergencyA woman is floating and swimming westbound in a canal near a medical complex. She is sometimes underwater but does not seem to be in distress. Emergency responders are coordinating a rescue with a boat near Mercy Southwest hospital.
Audio|Source: Kern County Sheriff/Bakersfield PD
03:57
Transcript:
(Name withheld) is still going westbound fear (name withheld) is swimming, (name withheld) is not listening to officers. Two central one, I copy female still westbound 10-9 rats. (Name withheld) is swimming, (name withheld) is not responding to officer. (Name withheld) is permanent. (Name withheld) has (name withheld) head underwater floating on (name withheld) back. It does not appear to be in distress. (Name withheld) seen before Callaway Drive? Correct. Two Central 1. (Name withheld) is about 200 yards east of Riverwalk entrance to the medical complex. Two Central 1, if we can contact fire, they can respond with the boat. Informant they were requesting to know where to enter. To correction, 2 Central 1, (name withheld) said in towards, (name withheld) is close to Mercy Southwest. I'm not sure where they can enter at that point. So we'll advise them to enter near Mercy Southwest. 2 and 2 Central 3 attempt to make entry into the canal near Mercy Southwest. That'll be NBC for return. One, too little, starting mileage 4.4.2. Soft one. One. Go westbound, Stockdale, past Old River. Your badge, 967. I'm on Old River in Stockdale to the north of Mercy Southwest, confirming that it's coming in a westbound direction. Confirming that female is still in a westbound direction. Okay, you're going to hear with me now. We're trying to maintain eyes here. Or has (name withheld) gone past Callaway Drive? 50 seconds and haven't seen anything come in this direction yet. Two central one. There's going to be a new bridge that goes over the canal into the east parking lot of Murphy South West on Stockton. We're about 200 yards east of that. (Name withheld) is still floating to the west, not listening to us. They get somebody to the west of Old River just in case and they make it through here as well. I'm not sure where that connects to. So we'll handle. It's good for one advice fire to go to the new bridge. Oh, they're already there. Subjects retrieving to grab them to the rope. Mike units are 1097.
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Location mentioned:
Near Old River Rd, Bakersfield, CA 93311
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