Older woman injured after fall in attic in Westport, Westport CT
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Medical EmergencyAn 88-year-old woman fell in the attic of a home near Compo Road North, Westport. She reported pain in her hip and right leg. Emergency crews used a stokes basket to safely carry her to the first floor.
Audio|Heard on: Westport Fire
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02:10
Transcript:
00:00
EMS unit for a call, 603, engine 2, truck 1.
00:05
Operate on fire dispatch.
00:07
EMS fall priority, near Compo Road North, between Jansen Drive and Cross Highway.
00:13
88-year-old female fell in the attic, complaining of hip and right leg pain.
00:18
Map, Delta 12.
00:31
Truck responding.
00:36
Truck responding.
00:39
Truck one falls up in Priority near Compo Road North between Jansen Drive cross-highway map Delta 12 for an 88-year-old female fall in the attic, claiming hip and right leg pain.
00:50
Off right on dispatch.
00:56
Westmore Country is also responding to make a call.
01:00
First, we responding to Compo Road.
01:03
Car three, a truck lot around here.
01:09
Car three and truck one on scene.
01:14
Truck one officer engine two, Lieutenant.
01:15
What do you need inside?
01:19
We need a stokes basket and possibly a backboard just to move her in the attic.
01:24
It's not any distress.
01:25
It's a little pain on the hip, but we got to move her down.
01:30
Truck one, okay.
01:36
First floor, Carthry.
01:40
What's worked on, Carthry?
01:46
Carthry's establishing command.
01:50
One piece in the attic.
01:53
It's going to need to be brought down a stroke basket from the second to first floor.
02:03
Received the peripheries command one patient in the attic being brought down to the first floor in the stokes basket
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Location mentioned:
Compo Rd N, Westport, CT 06880
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