Man severely cuts wrist while trimming tree limbs, Sand Rock AL
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Medical EmergencyA man cut his left wrist severely while trimming tree limbs near Friendship Avenue in Sand Rock. Bleeding was controlled with pressure and a tourniquet. The patient was alert and receiving medical care.
Audio|Heard on: Cherokee County Police, Fire and EMS Dispatch
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02:39
Transcript:
00:00
This match to Florida, MSSation 15, respond to near Friendship Avenue,
00:06
near Friendship Avenue in Sand Rock.
00:09
I have a 30-year-old male subject.
00:11
He was cutting tree limbs, I saw, has cut his wrist, advising it's about the fourth of the way through.
00:18
Bleeding severely, they're applying pressure at this time.
00:21
Patient is alert to conscience.
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Near Friendship Avenue, 33 primary.
00:31
32 dispatch.
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May, 32.
00:41
We're back in service.
00:46
We're back in service. Timber.
00:51
104 truck 3403, near Friendship Avenue.
00:55
You're going to turn down a truck drive or a crabble drive.
00:59
It should be the first road.
01:05
We'll go.
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1033-no.
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1043, near Friendship Avenue.
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When you come down Friendship Avenue off of Lookout Street,
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or if you come in on Highway 68,
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whichever way you come in.
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If you come in on 68, it's going to be on your right before you get back to Lookout Street.
01:33
It's going to be a gravel or dirt drive.
01:35
You're going to turn down First Resident on the left.
01:47
All units throughout Friendship Avenue call her to advise they have a cloth wrapped around it with some dolls they're putting pressure and by it appears the bleeding has slowed a little it is still bleeding they're not
02:14
Go ahead.
02:18
The cuts on his left wrist, they had a tourniquet on time of scene and they got it wrapped.
02:29
The visible cut is on the left wrist.
02:36
When on his arrival they had a tourniquet on, he does have it wrapped.
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Friendship Ave, Sand Rock, AL 35983
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