Child injured by head impact and swollen hand, Reading PA
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Medical EmergencyAccording to the dispatch call, a 12-year-old male suffered a head injury by hitting the edge of a dresser and has a swollen hand with deformity at a first floor apartment near Elm Street in Reading, Pennsylvania. Basic life support trauma measures were in progress.
Audio|Heard on: Berks County Fire and EMS - Digital
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01:52
Transcript:
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Attention to medic, free respond, near Elm Street, between Madison and North 5th,
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first floor apartment, BLS trauma, 1749.
00:13
Cross through East Franklin Street and North Main Street, AOS Medical, 1750.
00:22
Tanger 5, on scene, we have one street land over on the sidewalk out of that city.
00:28
Tenging 5 location reporting the street level on the sidewalk, 1750.
00:37
That'd be 30, we're going to be pulling out.
00:40
UMS is going to be pulling out, full traffic.
00:47
This is off the, on the sidewalks.
00:50
There's exposed wiring, but everything is insulated.
00:54
It looks like the base kind of failed, combined with a little bit of extra effort.
00:59
I don't believe there's a need for fire here.
01:04
All right, so we've got a tape off around there or anything and just PGF to come out.
01:15
The car that is how long is gone.
01:17
The, uh,
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I mean, the light push is the glass and broken out of this.
01:23
So I'm like they need to do something for the city side or four.
01:26
I don't think there's going to be any for PDs.
01:36
Victor, you're en route at 1752, near Elm Street, first floor apartment, 12-year-old male.
01:44
His head on the edge of a dresser and his hand is swollen,
01:48
obvious deformity, writing if needed, 1752.
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Location mentioned:
Elm St, Reading, PA 19601
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