60-year-old man with asthma suffers respiratory distress

Heard on: Randolph WV EMS Dispatch Group Calls

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Randolph County Station One respond, (number withheld) McElwain Drive, respiratory.

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Randolph County Station One respond, (number withheld) McElwain Drive, Kerens, sixty-year-old male, respiratory, zero five fifty-one.

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Station one.

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Ten 40551 .

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Seven hundred and eighty-nine, we're not responding.

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Seven hundred and eighty-nine, you are responding.

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Zero five fifty-five, you are responding.

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(number withheld) McElwain Drive in Kerens.

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It's going to be off Clifton Run.

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It's going to be a sixty-year-old male respiratory break.

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Go ahead.

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And it's been on since yesterday.

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His inhaler is not working.

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Also, neither is the oxygen he's supposed to be taking.

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He does have a history of asthma.

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He's alert and conscious this time.

8/25/2026 02:50 AM

Medical Emergency

McElwain Dr, Kerens, WV 26276

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As discussed during the dispatch call, emergency medical crews are dispatched to a home near McElwain Drive in Kerens for a 60-year-old man with ongoing respiratory distress. His inhaler and prescribed oxygen are not helping, and he has a history of asthma. He is reported to be alert and conscious.