Medical emergency with cardiac arrest on I-485 causes road closure, Charlotte NC
Medical Emergency, Road ClosureFire and EMS units responded to a person in cardiac arrest receiving CPR on I-485 near Exit 1. The incident involved a semi-truck cab and caused traffic disruption requiring road closure and control by emergency services.
Audio|Source: Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Fire
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Transcript:
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Green cleared. Sentry units respond to 485.
00:02
To be hourly before exit 1, CPR[2] in progress, per the call taker, giving CPR instructions.
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Go ahead, TILK india 1.
00:09
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.
00:18
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[4].
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What you asked him if we passed them?
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Central Steel Creek Engine[1] 1, that's 104[4] 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[4] save available.
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Metamedics 16. Callers advising you just passed them.
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Are they in a semi-drug?
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Okay.
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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.
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Andrew won't cough.
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Next, we're going to go ahead and get off, flip back around.
00:56
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.
01:02
Copy. It is on the Outer Luke, correct?
01:06
It's on the Outerloop.
01:09
Okay. The engine 20 is on scene with command, 45 out air[3], 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.
01:26
Copy that. 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[2], CPR.
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131 with T-minute.
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Stilber did you want to command?
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Go ahead, Szil Fritz.
01:42
Hey, do we need to get up and sell trying to come down the ramp the wrong way or go up there or would and turn back around?
01:48
Self-time, some down the exit ramp, the bus traffic.
01:52
We've got medic in front of us.
01:55
All right, ten four.
01:57
Engine[1]s one in the tower 26, come ahead of us, come in front of these trailer, I mean the tractor, and shut down traffic for the off ramps.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Engine: Fire Engine
[2]
CPR: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in progress
[3]
45 out air: Location marker (I-485 Outer Loop at Exit 1/Arrowood)
[4]
104: Acknowledgement/affirmative
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Location mentioned:
Near W Arrowood Rd, Charlotte, NC 28217
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