Person experiencing psychotic episode with weapons, Reading PA
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Medical EmergencyEmergency medical responders were called to near Orange St and Cotton St for a person experiencing a psychotic episode possibly triggered by drug use and lack of sleep. The caller reported that the person might be armed.
Audio|Heard on: City of Reading Fire/EMS
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01:35
Transcript:
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That's a medic 1,
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418, near Orange Street, Zincover Street, and Cotton Street, Class 4.
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019. Medic 1 Orange.
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1, 418, Orange.
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Third-party call for a 4-year-old male psychotic episode in hallucinations.
00:19
The question please is well, please be notified.
00:23
All right. Okay.
00:32
6.7, Jeremy Court, Apartment 2J.
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27-year-old female,
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bit by dog in the lawn, aunty feels numb, she's dizzy and shorter breath.
00:42
The dog is no longer on location, she's under the little apartment the dog lives in.
00:47
Call was also transferred to running force.
00:51
Great Steve.
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Since this is apartment building, is she known if it's roaming the hallways of the apartment building or, you know, she's safer she's at, or in the entryway or pass to get to her? Radio medic 7, the dog is secured in this department.
01:11
Please, Steve.
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Radio medic one.
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I have a matter of one.
01:25
The caller is the daughter of your patient.
01:27
I think the patient used a drug that was mixed with meth and it could trigger the episode.
01:31
They have weapons.
01:33
I've been using for days.
01:34
He hasn't been asleep.
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Location mentioned:
Orange St & Cotton St, Reading, PA 19602
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