Water rescue response at Willamette River near Hawthorne Bridge, Portland OR
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Medical EmergencyAccording to the dispatch call, emergency services responded to a water rescue call at the Willamette River west bank near Hawthorne Bridge after a man asked who to contact about accidentally tipping someone over the bridge. A jacket was spotted floating in the water, but no one was seen struggling.
Audio|Heard on: Portland Area Fire and Rescue
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Transcript:
00:00
Fire Dispatch calling a water rescue incident, the Willamette River, West Bank, the Hawthorne Bridge.
00:04
It's going to be for fireboat 21, engine, one, truck 1, C1, and a medic (number withheld) for be monitoring optional 6.
00:12
Fire dispatch with the water rescue incident responding with other agencies on a water rescue at the Willamette River, West Bank, the Hawthorne Bridge.
00:19
It's Fireboat 21, engine one, truck one, C1, and a medic (number withheld).
00:23
Be monitoring option, channel 6 at 235.
00:30
Hi, Gabi.
00:32
I'd be 35.
00:37
This is my squad one.
00:40
Squad one.
00:43
The water rescue shows responding.
00:47
Squat one, Copy, opposite.
00:52
This is Fire Dispatch with a repeat of the water rescue with the police.
00:58
Willamette River?
01:00
West Bank at the Hawthorne Bridge.
01:03
It's a report of a male that passed by the caller and asked the caller who to call if he accidentally tipped someone over the bridge.
01:12
Then the caller observed a jacket in the water.
01:15
No person's seen flailing around in the water.
01:19
The suspicious person that asked the caller this was last seen walking eastbound over the Hawthorne Bridge north side, a white male black beanie, beard, all black clothing.
01:29
It says for Fireboat, 21, Engine 1, Truck 1, C1, (number withheld), and Squad 1, Runoff 6.
01:41
That's Resil, Rescue Boat 21 responding, and place the Fire Boat 2-1, please?
01:46
Rescue Boat, 21 responding in place for the fireboat.
01:53
Squad ones arrived.
01:55
We're on the West Bank, underneath the Morrison Bridge.
01:59
We're going to take this side of this and just make sure that it's floating our direction.
02:04
Engine 1, if you want to go up on top of Hawthorne, take a look from there.
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Location mentioned:
Hawthorne Bridge, Hawthorne Bridge, Portland, OR 97214
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