Man injured by ladder while falling from roof, Caroline County VA
Medical EmergencyA 55-year-old man suffered a head laceration after falling about 20 feet from a roof when a ladder hit him. Emergency services responded for urgent medical care.
Audio|Source: Caroline County Fire and Rescue
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Transcript:
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Engine 2 and Medic 2-1.
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Respond to priority 1 laceration near Parenthee Street.
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Cross streets are John Marshall News and Conway Place.
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Respond on FireTack 2.
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Timeout 1413.
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Entertage response.
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Tension 2 responding at 1414 alarm time 1413.
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You're responding for the priority 1 fall priority 1stall near Parenthee Street.
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1st2 302 parent chief street cross-ed of John Marshall Mews and Conway Place.
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You have a 55-year-old male conscious and breathing who is bleeding from the head.
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He has a laceration from falling 20 feet; 20 feet from the roof and the ladder struck him on the head.
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He has the history of cranium.
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Your incident number is (number withheld), (number withheld).
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Medic 2-2 in place of Medic 2-1.
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I just said so I'll show you responding at 1450.
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16.
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1416.
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1416.
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Medic 2-2, same traffic.
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1417. 1417.
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On the units responding,
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an on scene appeared in Chief Street, we have received conflicting information.
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We've received conflicting information as far as it being a fall or the wind blowing the light again, striking the caller for a patient in the head.
02:08
We have been a ladder falling, hitting head, not falling from the water.
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Understood, Portuguese.
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Caroline County, VA
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