Air ambulance flight declined due to weather hazards, Oskaloosa IA
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Medical EmergencyAn air ambulance flight to transport a patient from Oskaloosa to University of Iowa Hospitals was declined because weather conditions near Iowa City were hazardous with icing and precipitation.
Audio|Heard on: Polk County, Dallas County, and Warren County Public Safety and ISP
Listen to dispatch call
03:1
Transcript:
00:00
Tension AirMed 2 from Dispatch, we have an interrupt with flight request.
00:04
Taking patient up in Oskaloosa at Mahaska Health, taking patient to Iowa City to the University of Iowa.
00:14
It looks like patient's weight is 244.2 pounds.
00:19
244.2 pounds.
00:22
This was rolled over from AirCom.
00:24
AirCare 1, 2, and 3.
00:27
No pilot, 1,000.
00:28
Two was on the call, and three was 70 minutes out, so they wanted to check a different craft.
00:35
AirMed 2, we're checking weather.
00:42
Copy that chicken letter.
00:48
Fratch medic fix on, see.
00:52
Yep.
00:57
Sorry.
01:00
Do you have a P.O.C.
01:01
for maintenance or anybody here in this building?
01:07
I'll say about what I can get for you.
01:22
Ambulance 413, engine 411, breathing problems, near Merle Hay Road, Ramada Inn.
01:30
Ambulance 413, engine 411, breathing problems, near Merle Hay Road, Ramada Inn, cross streets are unnoticed street and Merle Hay Road off-ramp eastbound, timeout, 1837.
01:49
Can you give me one number that I felt the rest of the trip? I can go get them if they don't work.
01:55
I could tell three foals on board one plus four zero minutes, so field dispatch number three six zero.
02:02
Three full supported three six zero, eighteen thirty eight.
02:10
Four thirty five, that's anything.
02:13
You betcha 1849.
02:19
You won five.
02:21
(censored).
02:25
(name withheld) at 18509.
02:31
So, 401.
02:35
41.
02:38
Can you put me back on that motorist as that H in 44?
02:43
Yes.
02:48
Okay, we're going to decline that for icing.
02:50
There's a lot of precipitation.
02:52
It looks like up around Iowa City, showing on the radar.
02:59
After that, it's going for icing crew.
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Location mentioned:
C Ave E, Oskaloosa, IA 52577
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