False medical alarm from device in shipped package, Des Moines IA
Fire & Arson – False AlarmEmergency responders were dispatched to a GPS medical alarm near Ingersoll Ave for a 75-year-old male. Upon arrival, they found the alarm device was inside a box being shipped and there was no emergency or patient present.
Audio|Source: Des Moines Fire/EMS
02:10
Transcript:
00:00
Station 5, near Ingersoll Ave, unknown problem.
00:05
Life station is the caller, GPS medical alarm near here on a 75-year-old male who activated button with no voice contact.
00:17
35, copy.
00:23
Go ahead, Enter 5.
00:30
Do you have an apartment number associated with this caller?
00:35
Negative. This was a GPS medical alarm near here with no voice contact made.
00:45
Engine 5-50.
00:48
All right,
00:54
5 arrived.
00:55
Copy session 5.
01:04
Go ahead, 105.
01:06
Yeah,
01:11
we've located the pendant alarm.
01:15
It is a light station that is in a box being shipped to the caller or the forest coming in.
01:21
There's going to be no patient here.
01:26
Copy that, no patient.
01:28
Time is 918.
01:34
dispatch engine five.
01:37
Is there a way you can make contact with the reporting agency on this and talk with them? Because the owner here (name withheld) has said that this has continually talked to him multiple times today and it's in a box and he didn't know if it needed to be deactivated until the recipient got it.
02:02
We can try to make contact with them.
02:07
Thank you. Thank you.
02:09
No problem.
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Location mentioned:
Near Ingersoll Ave, Des Moines, IA 50312
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