Fentanyl overdose sparks urgent rescue efforts in Republic home, Republic MO
A caller reports a possible fentanyl overdose at a Republic home; dispatchers locate the address and prepare emergency response while confirming the victim is diabetic.
Audio|Source: Springfield Police and Fire, Greene County Sheriff and Fire
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Transcript:
00:00
Go ahead. Check while being somewhere in the city unknown address, we placed it at the police department.
00:06
Caller says their father is possibly overdosing.
00:08
He's also diabetic.
00:10
They believe he's overdosing on fentanyl.
00:13
He texted the caller that he was shooting up and might not wake up in the morning.
00:17
Have some phone numbers available for him and then name of (name withheld).
00:22
I'm going to do some digging see if I can find an address.
00:25
I'm clear.
00:29
17-24. You can attach for that is that it is all.
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3.4. And report number.
00:35
All right.
00:37
I see you're over.
00:38
The caller is saying that (name withheld) lives in Republic with his grandma, name of Gertrude Williams.
00:44
I'm going to see if we can find an address.
00:50
At DOR, there's a Gertrude Hedwig Williams, address of 109 South Cottonwood Avenue.
00:59
There's a readback on the report number.
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211 on, I'm quick.
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35,725-75-75.
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Seventy-12.
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1712.
01:25
I will also be heading to 109 South Cottonwood.
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310, 531, I'll cut back just a sec.
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531 clear, the reference recurrent.
01:36
I also found the (name withheld) subject in DOR, DOV of 210 of 81, be showing the same cottonwood address.
01:44
I view to tell.
01:46
Okay.
01:51
1721. I was able to find that (name withheld) in each as well under the same cottonwood address.
01:56
It'll probably be that address.
01:58
If you can change that to the logpoint.
02:00
Okay. Okay.
02:02
1721, would you like me to stage medical now that we have an address or wait?
02:11
1721 we can probably wait for now.
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Location mentioned:
S Cottonwood Ave, Republic, MO 65738
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