Welfare check request after open apartment door found, Iola KS
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A volunteer delivering Meals on Wheels found an apartment door open at near Eisenhower and could not get a response from the resident, prompting a welfare check. Officers arrived and made contact with the resident who was found to be fine.
Audio|Heard on: Allen County and Iola Public Safety
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01:37
Transcript:
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Shannon from the clerk's office was doing Meals on Wheels, stopped near Eisenhower, reaching (name withheld)'s address,
00:07
said the door was open, so she walked in and put the food on the table, but could not get him to answer or hear him in the apartment.
00:16
She was just wanting somebody to check on him.
00:19
She was uncomfortable doing so.
00:24
Tenforth.
00:30
Station 1,161.
00:34
Go ahead.
00:38
Walmart called.
00:39
I have a middle-aged man in a brown and blue jacket with an orange shirt standing near the entrance by Sam and Louis soliciting money.
00:48
He was there yesterday and they told him to leave.
00:52
He's now back again.
00:56
When I'm done with the first call I was given, I'll take that one.
01:07
164-161, I'll go out there.
01:11
10-4, I'm almost 23 to the first one, and I can do them both if you're still there typing.
01:22
16151, I'm 1023 at near Eisenhower.
01:27
1040161.
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1040161.
01:34
I'll be 1024, I made contact, the person is fine.
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Location mentioned:
Eisenhower Dr, Iola, KS 66749
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