Medical pendant accidentally activated by elderly female, Wood River IL
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Medical EmergencyEmergency responders were dispatched to near Marguerite Ave for an 86-year-old female's medical pendant activation. Contact with the patient revealed the activation was accidental.
Audio|Heard on: East Alton, Hartford, Roxana, S. Roxana and Wood River Police / Fire
Listen to dispatch call
01:27
Transcript:
00:00
Central Station EMS call near Marguerite Ave, 86-year-old female medical pendant activation.
00:06
This is going to be a GPS location,
00:11
not the patient's residence.
00:14
Central Station EMS call near Marguerite Ave, 86-year-old female, medical pendant activation, no answer.
00:21
It can be a GPS location, not the patient's address.
00:25
We'll have a truck and round time at 1430.
00:46
That's 4251.
00:47
Go ahead.
00:50
This information, we're going to be trying to get in contact with the subscriber.
00:55
Looks like the building there is Restoration Gospel Lighthouse Church.
01:00
There's corner, Marguerite that is.
01:05
That one.
01:11
That's 42-51.
01:15
What?
01:17
I spoke with our patient.
01:19
(name withheld).
01:20
She assured me everything was okay.
01:23
It must have been accidental.
01:24
She didn't even know she hit it.
01:25
She just received a call as well from the alarm company.
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Location mentioned:
Marguerite Ave, Wood River, IL 62095
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