Man Stuck Outdoors in Cool Weather for Several Hours, Hardy County WV
Medical EmergencyA 60-year-old man was found stuck upright behind a tool rental business near a cornfield. He had been outside in about 50-degree weather for three and a half hours. Emergency responders reached him. He was in fair condition but cool, clammy, with a fast pulse and some shortness of breath.
Audio|Source: Hardy County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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People here on the scene are advising, sir. If you launch here behind the pool rental, come off to the northwest along the side of the cornfield.
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You should see an exit down it will lead down to us. We're going to try to pull somebody up a little closer to the top of the hill.
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It should be good from there.
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There's a small pathway that leads down to us.
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Do you want us to unload Argo at the tool rental?
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Yeah, I'm down in behind it along the cornfield.
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Ten, four.
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Command.
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Are we taking the second driveway, or the first driveway past the tool rental?
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I want you to stop at the tool rental.
00:56
There's a cornfield.
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I want you to come down along that cornfield,
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come through the gate,
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and we'll have somebody closer to the top of the hill here, and you'll come down this small pathway leads down to where we are.
01:22
If you got anybody down there, they could go up there and show them the way down through.
01:26
It's dark and they probably don't know this area.
01:31
Yeah, we're sending somebody up there toward the top of the hill.
01:38
Three. Look at 46,000.
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Two one three, good.
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60-year-old male.
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He's in generally fair condition.
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He's been stuck upright in approximately 50 degree weather up right up right for approximately three and a half hours.
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His cool and clammy to the touch,
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pulse rate feels about like 182, 184 and tacky.
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He is a little shorter breath, other than out, he's generally good spirits.
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Hardy County, WV
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