Medical emergency at apartment leads to grenade discovery, Lincoln NE


Medical teams responded to an apartment for a woman having a seizure. While there, they found a suspicious grenade-like item with a blue handle. Police and bomb experts were called, and the building was evacuated to keep people safe.
Audio|Source: Lincoln Fire and Rescue
04:52
Transcript:
00:00
Engine 14, Engine 10, Medic 10, and EMS 1. Respond 2. Zone 34. Medical echo response, cardiac arrest. At 6142, Northwest Second Circle. Unit 425. Respond on TAC 3. Dig 10, they're up. EMS want to know.
00:25
14 is out. Engine 14, engine 10, medic 10, EMS1, verifying an echo response, zone 34 at 6142, northwest second circle, apartment 425 for a 26-year-old female, not awake, has agnal breathing. We have CPR in progress. And you're on, tack three, tack three.
00:52
Inge 10, the medic 10, why don't you go around this? Okay, 10 going first. Page 14 is on location MBT. 14 is a patient, not a cardiac arrest. Receive not a cardiac arrest.
01:19
Seizure? Receive seizure.
01:42
Could you start me a suspicious article? Looks like we have a, it looks to be a grenade in this residence. We are unsure of what it is. So I need a bomb technician and we'll start the suspicious article or thing here. Received.
02:05
Battalion 1 or Battalion 2 on 2, did you receive all that? Battalion received, I'll make a notification. Receiving. Attalion 2 receives. To dispatch, what tack were they on? I'm given engine 7, tack 5, tack 5.
02:32
Just seven on attack time. Agent seven. Just caught a little bit of the conversation. Is this inside the residence and is it something they're willing to give up? So we were contacted here for a medical while we are in the residence inside the patient's room, which we are getting ready to transport the patient now.
03:02
There appears to be a grenade. It does have a blue handle. I do not know. I didn't want to touch it much more. There is a pin that's in it yet. The person that's here has home health care, and he is former military. So I guess I'm trying to get a little advice of where to go with this. I don't really feel comfortable touching anything like that, but it looks to be pretty authentic.
03:29
Yeah, we'll have to get with, let's start with the law enforcement first, just due to it's in the residence. Receive, we're working on getting everybody out of those residents right now. Receive. Just have LPD respond. Receive.
03:57
And just something to dispatch 5, did you catch all that once again, LPD to respond to this location? I did, and I guess just for everybody's info, I did Google it, and a blue handled grenade typically means practice, or it might release blue smoke, just an FYO. As you receive all far ahead in that way.
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Location mentioned:
Near NW 2nd Cir, Lincoln, NE 68521
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