Juvenile reported with neck injury at Mason City home, Mason City IA
A welfare check was requested near 23rd Street in Mason City after a juvenile reported a person with a neck injury who may be barricaded in the garage. The injured person was reported to be conscious and breathing. There were concerns that the individual might have been harming himself with a knife and possibly hitting his head with a hammer. It was unclear how many people were inside the home or garage. Emergency medics were staged nearby awaiting safe access.
Audio|Source: Cerro Gordo County Sheriff, Mason City Police and Fire
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Transcript:
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Could be a welfare check.
00:02
Officer Mason City mentioned near 23rd Street's off-list.
00:05
Caller advised a juvenile came over to her house. If there's a subject in this house that had cut his neck.
00:13
Color, I believe he's still conscious and breathing.
00:16
Again, near 23rd Street, Atlas, Tim is 1536.
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Code 2[1].
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September.
00:31
2730.
00:32
Go ahead.
00:34
Can I have used this 31 on this welfare check?
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Some more.
00:40
Dispatch 2414 2414 2414 Please May 47 Go ahead
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May 47 Make 47 back from prayer headquarters
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See, 38
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Pinkbird command 2416. This is your 15-minute badge check. We're okay.
01:13
1538.
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731. 731.
01:20
Go ahead.
01:22
Medics are going to stage in the area if you want to let me know when it's safe to them to approach.
01:29
10 more.
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2418, let's take it left on 19th,
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right on Jefferson and stage at Clover and Jefferson.
01:49
Clover and Jefferson.
01:52
Understood, Clover and Jefferson.
01:58
about harming himself with a knife and something about hitting himself in the head with a hammer. Ten four.
02:08
And mom believed he would be barricaded in the garage.
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Ten for him.
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This is that's 31.
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31.
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I'm in the area. Can you call the caller back and see, make sure everybody else over that house other than the subject we're supposed to do in the check-on?
02:35
She didn't know the child was the only one that came outside.
02:42
Could you have her ask for a child then?
02:46
Ten points.
02:51
dispatch 2414 we're in the area this match 30 30 20 percent
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2731, 2730 believe there's going to be two people either inside the home or in the garage.
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She did not know.
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10-4[2]. 31,
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I've got someone inside.
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Go ahead.
03:52
Go ahead for Wright County.
03:54
LastRP you advise, it's going to be on the east side of the north on lane, so it's going to be in the ditch.
03:59
10-4[2]?
04:06
Tax thing, says everybody's out of there?
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10-4[2].
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Code 2: Priority response without lights and siren (urgent, non-emergency)
[2]
10-4: Acknowledgment (Message received / OK)
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Location mentioned:
Near 23rd St SW, Mason City, IA 50401
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