Person with breathing difficulty and road blocked by tree, Pacheco CA


Emergency responders were called to a location near Vista Grande for a person having difficulty breathing. The situation required advanced life support and an ambulance. A tree was blocking the road and entangled with power lines, needing county workers and utility response to clear the hazard.
Audio|Source: Contra Costa County Fire - Central
02:16
Transcript:
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Engine 9. Medic 11 respond. Code 3[1].
00:03
Near Vista Grande, near Vista Grande. Difficulty breathing.
00:13
Fire truck 6.
00:21
Near Whitman and Oak Grove, made contact with the DELS rig. They want us to respond and help.
00:34
...com for copies. Did you want me to put you on the run?
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That's affirmative, yeah. We're on team.
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Copy. We'll put you on C.
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On fire, just okay.
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116, go ahead.
00:59
We have a tree block on the road into the power lines.
01:04
Dispatch county workers, the tree, energy, TG and each of the power lines.
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16 I copy tree blocking the road into the power lines requesting county works for their power line the tree and PG&E we're going to upgrade to a ALS[2] code 3 ambulance and it will cancel the BLS[3] unit.
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Medical response to the digital resource code 3 Oak Grove crossing Whitman Road.
01:46
To assist truck 6 on send your request in code 3 ALS[2]. BLS[3] 1 you can cancel, BLS1 you can cancel.
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CONFIRE BLS[3]-50. BLS-5-0.
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BLS[3]-5-0.
02:08
Can we get an ALS[2] to our location, Code 2, please, for possible pain management and cardiac-related chest pain and also...
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Code 3: Emergency response with lights and sirens.
[2]
ALS: Advanced Life Support level medical care provided by paramedics or higher-trained emergency personnel.
[3]
BLS: Basic Life Support medical response or unit providing non-advanced emergency care.
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