EMERGENCY

DISPATCHES

Broadcasts about these fire and ambulance calls were monitored this past week by the newspaper:

NOV. 4

7:32 a.m. — A 66-year-old man with vascular abnormality was transferred by Marion ambulance from St. Luke Hospital, Marion, to Wesley Medical Center, Wichita.

9:56 a.m. — With Marion ambulance not yet back from Wichita, Hillsboro ambulance was dispatched to take a 69-year-old woman experiencing vomiting and diarrhea from Homestead Senior Residences, Marion, to St. Luke.

11:47 a.m. — An unresponsive 72-year-old man at Peabody Health and Rehab was taken to NMC Health, formerly Newton Medical Center, by Hillsboro ambulance.

12:07 p.m. — Tampa ambulance was ordered to stand by until 1:35 p.m. at the Hillsboro ambulance station in case of additional calls.

12:24 p.m. — Marion ambulance was ordered to stand by until 1:35 p.m. at a training exercise at Pawnee and 190th Rds.

7:05 p.m. — A 33-year-old woman with abdominal pain was transferred by Hillsboro ambulance from Hillsboro Community Hospital to McPherson Center for Health.

7:26 p.m. — A Peabody firefighter shut off natural gas to a house in the 200 block of N. Maple St. in Peabody after a leak in a line to the house was discovered.

NOV. 5

1:11 a.m. — A woman with abdominal pain after a wreck near Main St. and Eisenhower Rd. east of Marion declined to be taken to a hospital by Marion ambulance.

6:09 a.m. — Three people involved in a wreck on US-56/77 south of 350th Rd. declined to be taken to a hospital by Tampa ambulance. The call initially went to Marion ambulance but was changed.

8:35 a.m. — Hillsboro ambulance was sent to Wesley to transfer a hospice patient to a house in the 200 block of W. 3rd St. in Florence. The ambulance returned to Hillsboro at 1:44 p.m.

7:23 p.m. — Hillsboro firefighters trained until 8:51 p.m. at a city lot.

9:53 p.m. — A small natural gas leak outside a house in the 300 block of N. Birch St. in Hillsboro was determined by Hillsboro firefighters to pose no danger but was reported nonetheless to Atmos Energy.

THURSDAY

4:37 p.m. — An uninjured 65-year-old woman unable to get up at a home in the 400 block of S. Thorp St. in Marion was helped up by Marion ambulance attendants and firefighters. She declined to be taken to a hospital.

5:10 p.m. — Despite dispatchers having no contact information on file, Marion firefighters who heard an alarm coming from Orsted’s Sunflower Wind facility in the 400 block of N. Roosevelt St. were able to gain entry and determine there was no fire. The address initially reported was for a Bradbury facility across the street.

FRIDAY

No dispatches.

SATURDAY

10:49 a.m. — A 26-year-old man suffering seizures was transferred by Hillsboro ambulance from St. Luke to Wesley. Marion ambulance attendants helped load the patient.

6:52 p.m. — A 66-year-old man with a brain bleed was transferred by Marion ambulance from St. Luke to Wesley.

SUNDAY

No dispatches.

MONDAY

3:09 a.m. — One of the most confusing calls in recent months began with dispatchers assigning Marion ambulance to go to Homestead Senior Residences in Marion for a 66-year-old woman who reportedly was not responding normally.

For unannounced reasons, Hillsboro ambulance and an ambulance supervisor based in Hillsboro took the call instead. A medic asked for police to be sent as well.

Dispatchers updated medics that a caller could not determine whether the woman was breathing. Several minutes later, a Marion police officer reported that she was breathing fine, had suffered cramps and fallen on her way back from a bathroom, was uninjured, and required only help getting back up.

The ambulance and supervisor arrived 15 minutes after the call came in. Twenty minutes after their arrival, medics reported that they would take the woman, who had become nauseated after their arrival, to St. Luke.

A nurse at St. Luke asked for the patient’s initials. A medic responded that she would not violate the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act by providing them. St. Luke said initials would not violate HIPAA, but they were not provided.

9:36 a.m. — A 58-year-old man complaining of rib pain after falling 10 to 12 feet out of a deer-hunting tree stand near 170th and Clover Rds. was taken by Florence firefighters to the US-50/77 roundabout at Florence, transferred to Hillsboro ambulance, and taken to Wesley. An ambulance supervisor also responded.

With Marion ambulance continuing to be unavailable, Tampa ambulance was ordered at 10:10 a.m. to stand by until 12:32 p.m. at the Hillsboro ambulance station in case of additional calls.

12:46 p.m. — With Marion ambulance continuing to be unavailable, a 74-year-old woman who passed out twice and hit her head in the 300 block of Grandview Ave. in Florence was taken to St. Luke by Hillsboro ambulance, which arrived 24 minutes after the initial call. An ambulance supervisor based in Hillsboro also responded.

2:17 p.m. — Marion firefighters pinched off a natural gas line that somehow was cut near Main and Vine Sts. on the west edge of town.

5:22 p.m. — With Marion ambulance still unavailable, Hillsboro ambulance transferred an unspecified patient from St. Luke to Wesley Woodlawn Hospital, Wichita.

Tampa ambulance, which reported difficulty receiving dispatchers’ transmissions, again was ordered to stand by in Hillsboro until 8:10 p.m. in case of additional calls.

An ambulance supervisor based in Hillsboro also went to St. Luke.