Fire and police respond for welfare check at apartment, Durham NC

Medical Emergency

Reported: 11/9/2025 12:51 PM

Near E Pettigrew St, Durham, NC 27701

Police requested help from the fire department to check on an unresponsive resident at an apartment near East Pettigrew Street in Durham. The resident had not been heard from in two days and might be connected to a previous incident. Fire and police coordinated to find access to the apartment without forced entry, as maintenance was not on site and no representative was available for the property.

Audio|Source: Durham City Fire

04:28

Transcript:

00:00

Message for Fire, near East Pettigrew Street.

00:08

Message for Fire,

00:10

Near East Pettigrew Street, cross of South Dillard Street and Fayetteville Street, Battalion,

00:18

00:21

Sorry, you want to be on sale to about two.

00:29

Zion One's on the opposite.

00:40

Communication from Zion One, I'm an officer too.

00:43

There's a call.

00:45

Let me just pull up this narrative.

00:52

Looks like Baker at, there's a call near East Pettigrew Street, Department 417.

00:58

It looks like Baker 500, they advised to contact fire needing to know if you all will allow entry to a resident without forced entry.

01:09

I believe they're waiting on someone with the key.

01:11

I'm trying to get 500 to switch over now.

01:16

500 going out without damaging the doors, that's correct.

01:24

Hey, this is 500 from PD.

01:26

Is this same engine that responded over to near East Pettigrew yesterday? Thank you, sir.

01:33

This is the time, chief.

01:34

However, I'm over the engine.

01:36

They respond to that area.

01:37

It's a different shift, but did you have someone cover over yesterday and open the door for you? Is that one over this?

01:44

Well, I believe you guys have like access to the keyfob to get us into the building, but I was trying to figure out if that same key valve or anything that you had can get us into an apartment as well.

01:59

I'm not completely sure as far as if there's an access key in the Knox box itself that will let us like a master key.

02:09

I'm pretty certain that a key file is not going to let the one to listen to the building is not going to let us into a particular apartment.

02:18

But I can get with the engine that responds to that location to see what they can figure out.

02:25

Okay, yeah, I know yesterday they did have a maintenance guy with them, and I made contact with the maintenance guy, but there's no one on site and there's no one, no representative for the property here.

02:35

So it's kind of a waiting game.

02:36

I was just trying to avoid,

02:39

you know, using force entry because we got some information.

02:43

This could be our victim from yesterday.

02:46

We got a call from Duke to do a welfare check, and he hasn't responded in two days, and pictures look similar.

02:55

All right, copy, I can have the engine respond over there and see if they can help you out.

02:59

All right, careful.

03:02

Thank you.

03:05

Communications from the battalion.

03:08

Go ahead.

03:12

Go ahead and dispatch engine one over this location for assist PD and have them meet me on this option.

03:20

Double.

03:21

Engine one, copy direct, we're on ops two en route.

03:25

Okay, let's copy.

03:28

Engine one, do you hear that conversation I have with the PD officer?

03:34

I did.

03:37

Copy. I'm officer to this town, just let me open to anything.

03:42

Okay, thank you.

03:47

Pee copies, we appreciate it,

03:50

Gus.

03:56

Engine 1 from Recke, 1.

03:58

He just run over there.

04:03

Great, if you don't mind.

04:06

Good temple.

04:10

Thank you. Communications.

04:11

You can clear Engine 1 and share Rescue 1 in route.

04:14

10-4[1].

04:19

communications when you do go ahead and start a call number and clear battalion 1 to engine 1 from the notify fire

04:26

I won't allow me to clear

04:28

simple

Police codes explained

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[1]

10-4: Acknowledgment / OK

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Near E Pettigrew St, Durham, NC 27701

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