Medical help called for elderly man needing lift assist, Trafford PA
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Medical EmergencyEmergency services responded to help an 82-year-old man who weighs about 300 pounds and needed assistance getting into his home near East Armine Avenue in Trafford. Multiple personnel were needed to move him safely from a vehicle to a stair chair for transport.
Audio|Heard on: Westmoreland County Public Safety
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Manor Station 225, Respond, near East Armine Avenue in Trafford, cross streets, Bruce and Brickner Street,
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82-year-old male,
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lift assist,
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getting into the residence.
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Two point five.
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Collaging at 1710.
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Caller is advising that the patient is bariatric.
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Approximately 300 pounds, they advise these with integrated in medical transport and said it took six of them to get him out of the van.
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It used to be...
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Assistant 225.
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Confirming, is he still in the van?
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Let them down to get them into the stair chair.
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We're unable to do it and they're holding them up.
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Trafford, PA
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