Medical emergency of unresponsive man on Precipice Trail, Bar Harbor ME
Medical EmergencyRescue teams responded to a medical emergency involving an unresponsive man on Precipice Trail in Acadia National Park. The man stopped moving and his condition worsened. Multiple rescue units coordinated efforts to locate and assist him using GPS coordinates. The patient's status was monitored and resources arranged for his safe evacuation from the area.
Audio|Source: Bar Harbor, MDI and Acadia Police, Fire, EMS, Park Rangers
06:59
Transcript:
00:00
All units Medical on Precipits stand by for information.
00:07
All units responding to medical on precipice, the male subject has agreed to stop moving.
00:16
I have his coordinates and stand by for those.
00:26
44.2060 by negative 68.1127, great.
00:36
Again repeating 44 decimal 2060 by negative 68.
00:43
1127. He's agreed to stop at this time.
00:48
The reporting party stated that he was definitely slower than when he started after his unresponsiveness.
00:59
The rest is I-C.
01:00
Copy.
01:01
Break, Rossett.
01:03
I see.
01:05
The court rate is E2, Bowt Pressure 128 over 77, with 1027 on-per-year.
01:14
EPA is about eight minutes out.
01:16
Anything further?
01:19
Run aside on arrival at WIR 602 and out.
01:28
Dispatch, press this IC.
01:32
IC,
01:34
go ahead.
01:35
Are you able to put those coordinates in teams?
01:41
Yes, we will be doing that.
01:43
Stand by just one moment.
01:46
10-4[1]. Break.
01:48
Rust it. I see.
01:54
When those coordinates get in, I'm driving right now, can you let me know where they're at?
02:00
And whether or not the insert at the top would be worth it or if we should just respond on foot going up trail.
02:09
I'd hold resources at the North Ridge and just have 2.45 start up the trail from the bottom.
02:14
That way we don't have the backtrack on the one way.
02:20
Okay, 104. The 204, Prestas, I see.
02:27
TZ4, go ahead.
02:28
Do you have a contact for those five resources that were headed to stage at the bottom of the precipice?
02:43
It's going to be just a number of MDI SAR members.
02:48
Peterson is probably your best bet for that.
02:52
They have radios with them,
02:56
and they're going to be staging at the Precious parking lot.
03:11
Attention Barber Fire Department.
03:14
The request for you to respond to near Main Street.
03:17
It's going to be for a rental property there.
03:19
Renters advising a felt of gas inside.
03:22
They've evacuated the building of all people and pets.
03:24
We've been standing by Oside.
03:27
Repeating Attention from Harbor Fire Department, the request for you to respond to near Main Street.
03:31
It's going to be a rental property.
03:33
The renters have evacuated the building, felt like gas inside.
03:37
Page Clear, 1119.
03:43
Those coordinates to my cell, please.
03:47
I have no service, no computer perception either.
03:51
Copy that. Great.
03:53
Cedar 2. Can you cut that once you get on soon?
03:58
Hey, firm, I'm about Sotomont, and I'll see what I can get.
04:01
What's your location?
04:11
You were broke, can you repeat?
04:24
Again,
04:25
negative copy.
04:26
Can you repeat?
04:29
Now seeing, start them on.
04:32
I copy Passing Certumont.
04:35
If you hold off at Northridge Champlain, I'll meet you there.
04:40
I'll drop the ALS bag.
04:42
And we'll see if we can't get you one more to head on and start the ascent.
04:49
Do that patient.
04:51
Welcome.
04:54
Powell Rossett.
05:00
We're standing by at the LZ.
05:02
The Forest Service insert would just be a land at the summit and hike down without the coordinates or further on the patient.
05:08
We're going to stand by.
05:12
Okay, four.
05:20
Precipice IC204.
05:22
We're going to start a mock cut.
05:26
Yeah, I've got 242 down at the SART truck now.
05:30
We're just rehabbing a couple of things and then I'll have him head to the station area with the Sart truck.
05:37
Copy.
05:44
Engine 5Center.
05:48
Copy engine 5-0.
05:50
Red and roll for another in the event that it needs to happen.
06:03
We may need to wait just a bit, but we'll get it all together before we head out.
06:09
10-4[1].
06:14
Precipice, I see, additional, the park litter went with Far Harbor.
06:21
The patient wasn't in a mega mover.
06:26
Copy.
06:33
All units,
06:36
medical on precipice updated coordinates.
06:43
The stated coordinates are 44.34988 by negative 68.191.
06:54
The coordinates that the female gave me from her phone flot in the water, they weren't correct.
Police codes explained
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10-4: Acknowledgment / Message received
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Precipice Trail, Bar Harbor, ME 04609
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