Tree falls on vehicle injuring elderly man with Parkinson's, Cedar Bluff AL
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Medical EmergencyA tree fell on a side-by-side vehicle near County Road 199, injuring an elderly man with Parkinson's disease who sustained head lacerations.
Audio|Heard on: Cherokee County Police, Fire and EMS Dispatch
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Transcript:
00:00
Florida Amat Station 14 Cherokee Rescue.
00:03
Respond to near County Road 199.
00:08
Call reporting a tree fell on a side-by-side vehicle.
00:11
Subjects are in the utility vehicle, injury status unknown.
00:20
3.1 primary.
00:27
5431.
00:32
Station 14.
00:35
Yellow copy.
00:39
Truck 2 and Engine 2 are en route.
00:48
All units, 80-year-old man with Parkinson's disease has head lacerations.
00:55
Cannot work for him.
00:59
Cannot work.
01:04
How soon was he drove to attack.
01:13
Dispatch reports another operator was cutting trees when a man got too close and the tree fell on the side-by-side vehicle.
01:23
This was the situation when the injury occurred.
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Location mentioned:
County Rd 199, Cedar Bluff, AL 35959
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