Air medical transport for injured child near Kenilworth Blvd, Port Charlotte FL
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TrafficAccording to the dispatch call, emergency responders coordinated landing for air medical transport of a 5-year-old child injured in a vehicle incident near Kenilworth Boulevard in Port Charlotte. The landing zone was arranged between emergency vehicles on a two-lane paved road, clear of debris and obstacles.
Audio|Heard on: Charlotte County Fire, Punta Gorda City Fire, and Punta Gorda Airport Fire
Listen to dispatch call
03:57
Transcript:
00:00
If you want to GPS my location and give that to the aircraft, was it Aramut 5, you said?
00:08
10 for it.
00:12
All right, if you just want to GPS my location, give them that,
00:16
it's going to be near the incident location just to the east of it, though.
00:21
I'll have LZ control.
00:28
Headbunch, and close to Kenilworth in Port Charlotte.
00:36
Rescue, come down, Kenilworth.
00:44
Roger Arescue, acknowledge.
00:52
Rescue, I'll have you stop just short of my vehicle.
00:55
We're going to land in between my vehicle and the police of me.
01:03
Ignatio.
01:05
Retainee, this is AeroMed 5 on Tech 2.
01:10
AeroMed 5, guys.
01:16
About three minutes out from your LZ at this time, if you want to go ahead and give us an LZ report.
01:23
That's formative.
01:24
We're landing you on a two-lane paved road.
01:30
It is free of any debris.
01:32
You have power lines,
01:34
high power lines to the south approximately 250 feet of the LZ.
01:39
You have brush.
01:41
on the north side of the paved roadway.
01:45
Do you have a clearing, though, that you can land on the pavement itself if you'd like, or there is a grass median that you can land in that's hard packed? I'll land you in between my battalion vehicle and a deputy's vehicle that is east of the fire apparatus.
02:01
To be a five-year-old patient, a lot of a vehicle about 20 miles an hour.
02:08
Number five, good copy.
02:10
And if you can get us an approximate patient way and if there's potentially a parent going to go their way as well.
02:20
Receive, send by.
02:27
Carol, my patient weight is 20 kilos, 2.0 kilos.
02:33
And I'll check on,
02:35
as far as a patient, or parent as well.
02:43
Central LZ control.
02:45
LZ control, go ahead.
02:51
Can you deal with the deputies on scene and find out if the parents arrived yet and whether or not they were wanting to go with in the aircraft?
03:06
Copy.
03:13
Airment 5 LZ Control, I got you in sight.
03:17
I'm at your 12 o'clock.
03:18
Again,
03:19
we're landing in between my battalion vehicle and the deputy's vehicle that is east of me.
03:30
LZ Control, Airman 5, good copy.
03:32
Have the battalion vehicle, have the sheriff's vehicle on the east side and we'll land in between.
03:40
As form, if there is one clearing between a taller brush, if you'd like, or there is a hard-packed median.
03:54
The other control, we'll evaluate all the way down and we'll pick the best spot.
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Location mentioned:
Kenilworth Blvd, Port Charlotte, FL 33954
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