Chemical exposure causes breathing difficulty at apartment, Waite Park MN
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Medical EmergencyA 37-year-old man at Fair West Apartments near 7th Street South mixed chemicals and started coughing and having difficulty breathing. Emergency responders were dispatched to assist.
Audio|Heard on: Benton and Stearns County Public Safety
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03:28
Transcript:
00:00
Medical emergency from Fair West Apartments, near 7th Street South for a 37-year-old man who mixed chemicals and can't stop coughing and is having difficulty breathing.
00:14
23-06, I copy.
00:18
Do you want to page out fire for that as well?
00:26
I can get him going for that.
00:28
It does not look like he's in his vehicle now.
00:34
Okay.
00:41
Agent 1 from Agent 5.
00:43
He's got your directional light bar on.
00:49
This 2-1-54.
00:52
Were you asking me if it's a house?
00:55
Yeah, because my map's showing me it's downtown off of 12th Avenue and like 1st Street, but that doesn't make sense for the address is near 12th Avenue north.
01:11
No, yeah, you're on.
01:13
Yeah, it's 9 downtown.
01:14
It's over by St.
01:17
Paul's School.
01:18
It's, um...
01:29
It's more over by Centennial Park, I'm not sure if you're familiar with that.
01:35
Yeah, I am.
01:39
Yeah, so it's over in that vicinity.
01:44
That's it.
01:46
You got to get there or do you got it?
01:55
No, I can find.
01:56
I was going off the map first, but they recognized the address and called in when the map had a location that it should be.
02:07
Please copy.
02:08
I'll see if we could do something here in our system where we could update that.
02:16
This medical sounds like he was mixing some sort of chemicals and was having difficulty breathing.
02:22
I don't know what he mixed, but I prefer not to go in with nothing on.
02:32
Coffee, what building is it on dispatch, dispatches as well?
02:41
23-06.
02:43
Oh, okay.
02:46
What building was he at?
02:50
Near 7th Street South, but he is going to be in a blue Mercury Mountaineer.
02:57
He's going to be parked right next to a red car in the parking lot.
03:02
Okay,
03:03
I'm on scene and I just want to make sure that he page Way Park fire.
03:11
We have seen cloud fire going.
03:21
Cobby, I'm trying to find out the description of the vehicle and if this is what kind of chemicals he's mixed in.
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Location mentioned:
7th St S, Waite Park, MN 56387
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