Woman suffers self-inflicted gunshot wound, conscious and bleeding, Madison NC
Emergency services responded to a 50-year-old woman with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. She was conscious and breathing but bleeding heavily. The woman was refusing to follow medical instructions. Units staged nearby and prepared a landing zone for air medical transport.
Audio|Source: Stokes County Fire/EMS
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Transcript:
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Unit 5, Life 1, Station 36, near Corum Dr, between Highway 704 and Corum Dr,
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Merit's Trave County, Self-inflicted,
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shooting, timeout (number withheld).
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36, engine,
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fleeing, in route.
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36 engine, 3.36, engine, 3.
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In-route.
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36.
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In route.
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Copy back.
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36, yours one, near Corum Dr, between highway 704 and Corum Dr, emergency traffic on a shooting, patient is going to be a...
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50-year-old female with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, mouth.
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She is conscious and breathing at this time advising she can't control the bleeding.
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Staging is your discretion.
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She's refusing to do anything that we tell her to.
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Squad 36 folks, is Elio in route?
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They are.
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Thank you, ma'am.
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1136 will be responding.
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36 stage away, 36 stage away, 40 of 1136, 1136, copying route.
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1236, copy, around. 1236, copy the range.
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Wife on a copying route.
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36 en route to stage.
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1236 copying around to staging.
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5 copying around.
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1.302. See auto launch there's here.
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As I'm trying to do that this time, stand by.
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Four seconds.
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Life one. Call in. Call in life once.
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Ken Ford, are you available to call me if not a good attack too?
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Ken, four, standby.
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1136 states. I'm going to be out at stage and at Pete Martin in 7-04.
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Is that correct? What's going to be the closest landing zone?
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Okay, can you make me on that type 10?
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Yes, sir.
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736 on 2.
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Go ahead.
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Stokes, do you have any predescentated landing zones in that area?
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I'm looking the closest thing I'm seeing as the station trying to go through it.
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Near Corum Dr, emergency traffic on a self-inflicted gunshot wound, airfares in the air.
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236 on scenic staging.
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Squad 36, copy on scene at staging.
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One copy.
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Does she still monitor contact too?
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Yes,
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sir.
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Timble, I'm checking the landing zone area now.
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I should be able to give some coordinates in the second.
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We've got one at 3045 Highway 704 East.
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Hines are all coming up behind you in Buffalo roads and 704 looks pretty good.
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking we could land at that intersection. I just didn't know if it was any power lines close by.
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Steve, do you want to go ahead and get another fire department started for the LZ? Also, what would be my ground contact?
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I believe we're going to need another one.
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Buffalo and 704 being no-go. We've got the power lines in area.
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Copy that. Copy that.
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Near Corum Dr, Madison, NC 27025
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