Patient rescued by boat at Horsetooth Dam for back pain, Bellvue CO
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Medical EmergencyEmergency responders conducted a rescue operation by boat at Horsetooth Dam for a patient with midline lower back pain who was unable to walk. Multiple fire and rescue units coordinated the extrication and transported the patient safely from the north end of Dam 1 to a designated shore location for further care.
Audio|Heard on: Loveland Fire Rescue Authority and EMS
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04:10
Transcript:
00:00
I'm sorry, say your number here?
00:03
Park 7.
00:05
Copy Park 7.
00:06
It looks like we're going to go ahead and see if we can get an extrication by boat, so if you want to go ahead and launch.
00:16
And then no concerns with the weather for this button.
00:22
Copy, thanks.
00:25
Thank you too.
00:28
Go ahead.
00:31
So looking straight across, it looks like we're going to be right on the very north end of Dam 1.
00:39
And he's got midline lumbar pain unable to bear weight.
00:47
Did you say he was ambulatory or not?
00:51
Non-ambulatory.
00:55
We'll get a Stokes and Wheel headed your direction.
01:00
We do have a backboard.
01:05
Copy Rescue 42.
01:08
It's going to be heading up the trail with Stokes and Wheel.
01:13
Copy. Copy.
01:14
Battalion 41, Command.
01:21
We've got enough resources here.
01:25
I just wanted to get your input on releasing engine 61, water rescue 62,
01:31
and squad 61 from the scene.
01:35
Yeah,
01:36
I feel like that's fine with that boat coming from the north that's probably going to reduce down.
01:40
And they want to check to see where they're going to bring the patient to from the boat.
01:46
So we have the Helms Valley in the right location.
01:52
I can just bring them to the south ramp there since that's where resources are at.
01:59
Command copies, we'll bring the patient to the south ramp.
02:06
Command from engine 62 we're setting a firefighter to the shore for the boat to spot.
02:16
Copy Park 7, did you copy that?
02:19
Paper, I copy.
02:24
Command, Inge 42.
02:30
Just so you know, there's not a dock on the south shore.
02:37
There's not to be docks on any of our ramps we're going to have to do it to the way.
02:47
Command 474.
02:51
Go ahead.
02:53
Based on the coordinates, we're still pretty north of where the patient's at.
02:57
We're going to relocate to the south parking lot.
03:02
Command copies.
03:08
Engine 61, Engine 42 from Tramp.
03:15
We've got enough resources.
03:17
You guys can return the service.
03:23
61 copies available.
03:29
Engine 42.
03:35
I kind of threw you in there with 61, but you're clear.
03:40
Forty-two coffee, thanks.
03:46
Water Rescue, 62, Command.
03:53
Go ahead.
03:55
Can you come to the command post?
04:06
and Edward A3, the Medicare outpatient.
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Location mentioned:
Horsetooth Dam, Bellvue, CO 80512
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