Flooding reported in emergency department at South County Hospital, South Kingstown RI
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FloodingA flooding incident occurred in the EMS bay and emergency room area of South County Hospital. Multiple fire units responded to assist with the situation.
Audio|Heard on: South Kingstown Fire Dispatch (UFD & KFD)
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Transcript:
00:00
The station, Katie Stations,
00:02
1,2, 2, 3, and 6, Katie stations, 1, 2, 3, and 6, Fox Swamp, South County Hospital, near Kenyon Avenue.
00:13
Station K to station one, two, two, three, six, fox alarm.
00:17
South County Hospital,
00:19
near Kenyon Avenue.
00:27
Fire alarm responding.
00:29
Tim.
00:36
Okay, 22, responding with three.
00:39
Okay,
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22 responding with three, South County Hospital.
00:44
Units responding, got a call from the hospital.
00:47
They stated that there is a very large flood in the EMS Bay section of the ER department.
01:00
The fire alarm receives that message.
01:09
22 received.
01:16
Car 14, call on.
01:20
Car 14. Go to the King and Ave side and silence the panel.
01:32
Car 14, Avaultz.
01:40
He'llada one's respondent.
01:44
Ladder one you respondent, Scott's Gunnarth Hospital.
01:47
Okay, fire alarm's on scene, I'll give you an update in a second.
01:51
Yep. Yep.
01:58
The latter one, caught one.
02:06
Good. Come to the ER entrance.
02:13
Briefing.
02:14
You're there about 30 seconds.
02:16
Beware the rescue's parked.
02:25
Jason C5.
02:27
Okay,
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go ahead.
02:31
C5 will take command.
02:33
All right all units switch to Channel 5.
02:34
Can we start left over here?
02:38
Careful.
02:40
The other one's on scene.
02:43
Yep.
02:53
Okay station for Ladder 2.
02:56
Ladder 2 can respond.
02:57
South County Hospital assist with a flood issue, the ER.
03:03
Ladder 2,
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front of Southkenau hospital assist with some sort of a flood.
03:14
Okay, she's response.
03:26
Car 4th, car 12, go to Channel 5.
03:34
Okay, Chief V.
03:37
Go ahead.
03:40
You might want to know EMS know that there's a special water leak in the patient drop-off.
03:48
104.
03:52
Okay, N-22-1-4-Council.
03:55
10 for engine 20.
04:01
Okay, line two, three, South County Hospital.
04:05
Yep.
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Location mentioned:
Kenyon Ave, Wakefield, RI 02879
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