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Adult male with gunshot wounds to face transported, Salem IL

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Weapons

Reported: 12/14/2025 01:17 PM

Ricker Dr, Salem, IL 62881

According to the dispatch call, a medical helicopter is transporting an adult male patient to Salem Township Hospital. The patient has gunshot wounds to the left side of the face and a shattered jaw. The patient is intubated and on a ventilator.

Audio|Heard on: Clay County Sheriff and EMS, Wayne County Sheriff and EMS, Flora Police, Fairfield Police, Fire, and EMS, ISP Districts 12,13, and 19

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01:49

Transcript:

00:00

Three on board, 10 minutes en route, RA of 1,000,

00:04

Part 135,

00:05

responding for an adult trauma to Salem Township Hospital helipad.

00:12

I will go ahead and give a call as ground contact was not provided.

00:17

You are on card 154-4-466 and positive sidetrack.

00:22

Did you please readvise fuel?

00:29

4-tru-sov

00:36

Jax 51-Restrike Road, very good.

00:39

51, Redstruck, Road, very good.

00:41

Gray-Dodge, Pickup, Gray-Dodge, Pickup, (number withheld) truck.

00:46

242, 69, 26, people, truck.

00:54

They are intubated and on a ventilator.

00:58

However, chief complaint is the left side of the face.

01:00

I'm going to get them a call.

01:02

I'm going to get them a call.

01:06

I'm up.

01:11

The complaint is gunshot wounds to the left side of the face with a shattered mandible.

01:24

Go now. Stay alone.

01:31

Good afternoon.

01:32

And after the end of the 11th, about eight,

01:35

the cross-and-up, and then you have to be an update and then you have to be an update in this time,

01:41

and it is in a late-year.

01:43

Requesting a patient out there.

01:45

If the patient been intubated or having you jumped from this time, then we could get a patient with...

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Ricker Dr, Salem, IL 62881

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