Medical alarm triggers response to vacant home, Bluffton SC
Fire & ArsonFire and EMS responded to a medical alarm activation near Covey Lane in Bluffton. The alarm company reported the activation, but records showed the resident had been deceased since August and no one currently lived at the home. Law enforcement was asked to meet fire units at the scene to confirm the situation.
Audio|Source: Bluffton Township and Hilton Head Fire
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Transcript:
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Squad 41, respond to a medical activation near Covey Lane, cross-roots the span circle, repeating.
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Squad 41, respond to a medical alarm activation near Covey Lane, cross-roots the span circle. Timeout is 929.
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Squad 41.
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Squad 41.
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En route.
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Tenforth Squad 41.
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Just be advised that the same address from earlier the medical alarm activation near Covey Lane.
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Calls for service show we talked to the neighbor's patient deceased.
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Dispatch 403.
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403.
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You meet me on Ops 1 for a minute.
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I copy the info on the call.
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Can we confirm that the patient has been deceased?
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RMS shows the patient's been deceased since August. Time for the neighbor states no one lives at the location.
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You're receiving the call through the alarm system for the medical activation?
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Affirmative, it's coming in from the alarm company.
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Timor, man. We're going to go ahead and send one of our units out. Can you have law enforcement meet out there?
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Of course.
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Thank you. Squad 41, Yonauts 1.
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Yes, sir.
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Tenforth. Call me on my cell phone, please.
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Simple.
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Bluffton, SC
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