EMERGENCY

DISPATCHES

Broadcasts about these fire and ambulance calls were monitored this past week by the newspaper:

JUNE 24

5:18 a.m. — An 81-year-old man with gastrointestinal bleeding was transferred by Marion ambulance from St. Luke Hospital, Marion, to Wesley Medical Center, Wichita. The ambulance returned to Marion at 8:23 a.m.

8:53 a.m. — An 82-year-old woman who may have suffered a stroke at Salem Home, Hillsboro, was transferred by Hillsboro ambulance to Ascension Via Christi St. Francis Hospital, Wichita. The ambulance returned to Hillsboro at 12:04 p.m.

1:41 p.m. — A fire alarm at Goessel Junior and Senior High School was determined by a maintenance worker to be a false alarm before most Goessel firefighters arrived.

2:16 p.m. — An uninjured 79-year-old woman who, according to an alerting service, fell at a home in the 1100 block of Denver St. in Marion was helped up by Marion ambulance attendants. She declined to be taken to a hospital. A Tampa ambulance attendant contended that Tampa ambulance pagers wrongly were activated for the call.

5:10 a.m. — A 75-year-old man, red-faced and experiencing pain in his head and arms at a house in the 200 block of N. Maple St. in Peabody, was taken to NMC Health, formerly Newton Medical Center, by Hillsboro ambulance. The ambulance returned to Hillsboro at 6:52 p.m.

10:46 p.m. — An 88-year-old woman with a slow heartbeat was transferred by Hillsboro ambulance from Hillsboro Community Hospital to Kansas Heart Hospital, Wichita. The ambulance returned to Hillsboro at 1:04 a.m.

JUNE 25

1:04 a.m. — An uninjured 62-year-old woman who fell at Homestead Affordable Housing in Marion was helped up by Marion ambulance attendants. She declined to be taken to a hospital.

1:34 a.m. — A 12-year-old boy with complications from diabetes was transferred by Marion instead of Hillsboro ambulance from HCH to Wesley. The ambulance returned to Marion at 4:04 a.m.

8:24 a.m. — A dehydrated 53-year-old woman throwing up at house in the 100 block of E. 9th St. in Florence was taken to St. Luke by Marion ambulance.

8:30 a.m. — A fire alarm at Westview Manor in Peabody was quickly determined by Peabody’s fire chief to have been a false alarm.

1:17 p.m. — A sparking power outlet at a home in the 100 block of S. Roosevelt St. in Marion was checked by Marion firefighters, who used a thermal camera to make sure it had not started a fire in a wall.

2:39 p.m. — A 69-year-old man about to pass out after being out in hot weather in the 100 block of W. 7th St. in Florence was taken to St. Luke by Marion ambulance. Florence first responders were paged but did not answer.

6:29 p.m. — Dispatchers contacted Marion ambulance by telephone to arrange for an unspecified transfer from St. Luke to Wesley at 7:11 p.m. The ambulance returned to Marion at 10:28 p.m.

7:03 p.m. — Hillsboro ambulance stood by in Peabody while a sheriff’s deputy evaluated a possibly emotionally disturbed person there. Tampa ambulance was ordered to stand by in Hillsboro in case of additional calls. Both were told to stand down at 7:34 p.m.

7:29 p.m. — Hillsboro Fire Department’s ladder truck was at Joel Wiens Stadium until 9:28 p.m. for water games.

THURSDAY

12:11 a.m. — A garbled call from an elderly woman sent Hillsboro ambulance to a farmhouse near 250th and Indigo Rds. The ambulance took a “familiar” 78-year-old man with worsening shortness of breath to HCH.

11:41 a.m. — A 70-year-old woman who tripped and fell at Town and Country Café in Florence was taken to NMC Health by Marion ambulance.

5:28 p.m. — An 87-year-old woman who fell out of a wheelchair and hurt her hip at Salem Home in Hillsboro was taken to HCH by Hillsboro ambulance.

FRIDAY

11:14 a.m. — Hillsboro Fire Department’s ladder truck was at Hillsboro Elementary School until 1:47 p.m. for water games.

4:39 p.m. — Marion ambulance and firefighters were dispatched but quickly were told they would not be needed at a wreck in which a mower rolled into a ravine at 170th Rd. and Lakeshore Dr. at Marion County Lake.

4:52 p.m. — An uninjured 75-year-old woman who fell at Indian Guide Apartments community center in Peabody was helped up by Marion ambulance attendants, who answered the call instead of Hillsboro ambulance, to which the call initially was assigned She was not taken to a hospital.

8:36 p.m. — A 20-year-old woman complaining of heat exposure at Casey’s General Store in Hillsboro declined to be taken to a hospital by Hillsboro ambulance.

8:50 p.m. — In a call arranged by telephone instead of dispatchers, Marion ambulance opted to go to HCH instead of Hillsboro ambulance and transfer an unspecified patient to Wesley.

SATURDAY

8:38 a.m. — Two people involved in a two-vehicle wreck at US-56 and Ash St. in Hillsboro declined to be taken to a hospital by Hillsboro ambulance. Marion ambulance headed that way as well but was told to stand down. Hillsboro firefighters checked the vehicles for fire danger.

10:27 a.m. — Hillsboro ambulance and Peabody firefighters initially were sent to a one-vehicle wreck at 110th and Indigo Rds. but were told they wouldn’t be needed.

10:55 a.m. — Goessel firefighters were sent to Bethesda Home in Goessel to reset an errant fire alarm.

3:33 p.m. — Goessel firefighters spent more than two hours directing traffic after a non-injury accident blocked K-15 and 80th Rd. A wedding nearby complicated the situation.

4 p.m. — A 78-year-old woman, dizzy and with low blood pressure at a home in the 600 block of Sherman St. in Marion, was taken to HCH by Marion ambulance.

5:53 p.m. — An EagleMed helicopter transferred an unspecified patient from St. Luke to Wesley.

10:37 p.m. — A 90-year-old woman with an obstructed esophagus was transferred by Marion ambulance from St. Luke to Wesley.

10:57 p.m. — Burns firefighters were called to check a neighbor’s unattended brush fire in the 400 block of N. Cincinnati Ave. in Burns. They did not extinguish the fire but told the neighbor to watch its smoldering embers.

11 p.m. — Hillsboro ambulance was told to wait until 1:18 a.m., when Marion ambulance returned, to transfer an 86-year-old woman with internal bleeding from HCH to Wesley. The ambulance returned to Hillsboro at 3:21 a.m.

SUNDAY

6:45 p.m. — A 44-year-old woman who may have suffered a seizure or a cardiac episode at a home in the 300 block of S. Ash St. in Hillsboro was taken to NMC by Hillsboro ambulance after attendants first conferred by radio and telephone with HCH personnel. The ambulance returned to Hillsboro at 8:20 p.m.

MONDAY

12:10 a.m. — A 75-year-old woman with a heart condition was transferred by Marion ambulance from St. Luke to Wesley Woodlawn Hospital, Wichita.

12:29 a.m. — Peabody firefighters were dispatched for another false alarm at Westview Manor.

11:16 a.m. — A bicycle rider reportedly hit by a car was checked outside the sheriff’s office in Marion but declined to be taken to a hospital by Marion ambulance.

3:29 p.m. — An 82-year-old man at a farmhouse near 110th and Chisholm Trail Rds. was taken by Hillsboro ambulance to NMC Health after falling outside the day before. Goessel first responders were paged but did not answer.

4:48 p.m. — With Hillsboro ambulance not yet back from Newton, Marion ambulance was sent to Parkside Homes in Hillsboro to take an 82-year-old woman with a diminished blood-oxygen level to NMC Health.