Flight request for patient transfer delayed and declined

Heard on: Polk County, Dallas County, and Warren County Public Safety and ISP

01:55

00:00

Attention Air Med Three, attention Air Med Three.

00:02

Interhospital flight request coming out of Franklin General Hospital in Hampton, Iowa, coming back to MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa.

00:10

Your patient weight is 100 and twenty-seven pounds.

00:13

Three, five, copy. Just give me a 1 min .

00:15

I'll check out the weather.

00:25

Copy, checking weather.

00:31

Copy.

00:39

So two.

00:42

You know, call this in the front desk.

00:45

Doesn't have a clue why I'm here.

00:48

Says staff in the office is what we got.

00:53

Okay.

01:01

Tower 395, fire alarm 5291, Stoney Creek Court, Stony Creek Inn.

01:08

Tower 395, fire alarm 5291, Stony Creek Court, Stony Creek Inn, between Northwest 54th Avenue and Birchwood Court.

01:18

Response one, time out 1217.

01:26

This is Polk, Iowa, Dallas, Polk, and Warren County

01:30

Public Safety. This is Polk, Iowa, Dallas, Polk, and Warren County

01:36

Public Safety.

01:37

Again, underneath

01:41

the Southwest Ninth Bridge, please.

01:43

We'll be out with a suspicious male.

01:44

Dispatch, area three. There's some lightning at the moment over Hampton, so maybe half an hour delay.

01:46

Let's check it again.

01:48

So declining now.

01:54

Copy on that 30-minute delay.

9/2/2026 10:12 AM

Medical Emergency

Central Ave E a, Hampton, IA 50441

Flight request for patient transfer delayed and declined

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