Man in taxi on I-485 suffers breathing emergency, Charlotte NC
Medical EmergencyA man riding in a taxi cab on the outer loop of I-485 near exit 1 in Charlotte had severe difficulty breathing and became unconscious. Emergency responders performed CPR at the scene.
Audio|Source: Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Fire
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Transcript:
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Medics-60, Steel Creek Station 1, CFD, Delta[2] breathing problem, 45 outer loop before exit 1.
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45 outer loop before exit 1.
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Be on Ops 8.
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8. Engine 20. Difficulty breathing.
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32,000 6604 east die 485 outer.
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Engine 20. Difficulty breathing.
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32,000 6604 east eye 485 outer.
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Still quick, Andrew Wond, General Out.
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Chandra, this is the right channel.
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Still again, 1, show you in route.
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To end up to 8 for traffic.
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Office 8.
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Good. Engine 1, show you in Route 2.45 outer loop before exit 1.
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Entry, have a vehicle description.
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And are we patched in the city.
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Alarna companies are at the 45 hour in South Trion Street.
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Looking for a 68-year-old male.
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No further.
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I'll see if there's a vehicle description.
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Central 2, Stoker, Gington 1.
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Cool. It could be located in a cab on this side of the interstate.
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Are you sitting on?
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I was 26. The engine one is central, can you repeat your traffic?
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Central Engine One, it's going to be located in a taxi cab on the south of the interstate.
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The patient is now unconscious.
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Stop. Will you reach out to alarm and have them patched channels? They're supposed to be patched on the interstate.
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10-4-0-0-0-5.
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They're passing now.
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Charlotte fires now patched B-Bravo not safe.
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Major 1, cut.
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Major 1.26.
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We're passes out of Charion.
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We haven't seen anything. I believe the medic is in front of them.
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Steel Creek 1 Engine 1, Difficulty Breathing, East-I-485 outer and South Triand Street, on B, Bravo.
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Steel Creek 1 Engine 1, Difficulty Breathing, East I-485 outer and South Triane Street, on B, Bravo.
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Steel Brigidger 1 in Tower 26.
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You got trapped to Towers 126.
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That is the permit.
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We came down the outer, we didn't see anything from Steele Creek.
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This out try on.
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We're currently coming up on 77.
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Copy that.
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We get your one to six.
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Green cleared.
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Sentry units respond to 485.
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To be hourly before exit 1, CPR[1] in progress, per the call taker, giving CPR instructions.
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Go ahead, TILK india 1.
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Senator, what you call, call her about and ask them exactly where they were.
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If they're before South Toronto Street, they should have seen the fire truck go by it.
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And we didn't see them.
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Sturridge 1 looks like the caller is plodding on 485 before South Carolina.
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That's 104.
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What you asked him if we passed them?
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Central Steel Creek Engine 1, that's 104 he did pass them.
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4.9 gun.
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They have one or feasible AMA.
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104 save available.
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Metamedics 16.
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Callers advising you just passed them.
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Are they in a semi-drug?
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Okay. I believe the confusion is that it's just a cab.
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A cab is going to be the cap over the tractor trailer.
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If that's the case, it's 45-hour, just as exit 3, Arrowwood.
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Aege 12th.
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Central's direct, that is a semi-truck cab.
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Tenforth. Andrew won't cough.
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Next, we're going to go ahead and get off, flip back around.
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From where we pass, looks like we can take the off-ramp wrong direction and get to it.
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So that's part of the route we're going to take.
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Copy. It is on the Outer Luke, correct?
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It's on the Outerloop.
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Okay. The engine 20 is on scene with command, 45 out air, or at exit 1.
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All company stand by for further.
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An engine 20 tower 26 on your arrival, you block traffic and system here.
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Copy that.
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131 to keep it.
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131, be operating on ops 8, 4485 before it's 1.
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Copy. Power and copy, CPR[1], CPR.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
CPR: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in progress
[2]
Delta: High-priority (Delta) medical emergency
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I-485 Outer, Charlotte, NC
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