Welfare check in Albion unearths hypothermia risk in snowbound stranding, Albion MI
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Medical EmergencyPolice and EMS respond to a welfare check in Albion on a possibly suicidal person with a history of pill ingestion, with responders encountering individuals and officers stuck in snow, possibly hypothermic after over six hours outside with a language barrier that complicated rescue efforts.
Audio|Heard on: Jackson County and Hillsdale County Public Safety
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02:42
Transcript:
00:00
708 West Ganssen Street, welfare check on a possible suicidal subject, (name withheld).
00:05
Got a message through Wien from Ingham advising they got a tip that he may have taken pills a few hours ago.
00:12
He did have a phone ping showing in Albion at 3 a.m.
00:19
This is his address.
00:21
Blackmun's also checking an address on Askingham.
00:36
30260 Effaham 3-260 Essayham.
00:43
They got an anonymous tip that he possibly took pills two hours ago.
00:48
They are city checking one address as well.
00:58
No information on vehicles supposed to be driving.
01:02
They send very little except four addresses to check.
01:39
We're getting flagged down by somebody.
01:49
Could you possibly send a PD unit this way? A couple of people are stuck in the snow but there's a language barrier.
02:18
Possibly hypothermic, they've been out here for six plus hours.
02:33
PD is on the way, I confirmed.
02:37
Oh, we're completely stuck.
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Albion, MI 49224
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