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Person threatens to jump from Ortega Highway overpassOrange County CA

audio iconMedical Emergency
I-5, California

Emergency responders staged near Ortega Highway overpass on Interstate 5 in Orange County, California. A person threatened to jump from the freeway overpass. Authorities have shut down both sides of the freeway and negotiators are talking to the individual. Rescue and medical teams are on site.

Audio|Source: OCFA Alt Tac 5F - Zone 5 - South County
03:42
Transcript:
00:00
Engine 7, truck 56, five Pachshod.
00:03
Agent 7.
00:05
We're staged on the east side of the 5, that are taken.
00:13
Copy that break. Orange County Fire, engine 7.
00:19
Origin 7, Orange County Fire.
00:23
We're staged just east of where the sheriffs are. They do have one male on the other side of the fence. They're working on talking to them. CHP[3] does have both lanes. They're both sides of five freeway shutdown break.
00:41
Okay, fire Inja 7. I'll establish Ortega IC[2]P[1] will be on the east side of the 5 freeway on Ortega.
00:51
Can you notify incoming resources to use surface streets, the freeway is going to be shut down?
01:06
Ravanger establishing Ortega IC[2] 1847 all of incoming units of southbound 5 be advised the 5 freeway is shut down use service roads to approach service roads only
01:17
Orteg I see, truck 24, on scene, staged.
01:24
Truck 24, I copy your stage, your location.
01:32
Yeah, we're at Rancho Viejo and Ortega Highway.
01:45
Go have you grab 56.
01:50
Truck 56, I'm going to have you establish a rescue group. If you can come up to the IC[2]P[1] location and face-to-face with us so that we can come with a plan.
02:00
Truck 56, Tommy.
02:05
Kennedy Fire, Ricanity 6 by Pachshundon. Okay, fire. Okay, fire.
02:12
I'm on scene,
02:15
staged at the Ortega and 5 freeway overpass.
02:19
Update on that conditions, we have a single jumper on the outboard side of the freeway fence on the southbound side of the Ortega freeway.
02:30
OCSC is currently working on negotiating.
02:35
Agent 7 is going to retain command.
02:38
I'll stay on scene.
02:43
Prozni-6, the copy report.
02:50
Take eyes going to Chinese fire.
02:53
No, Frank D.
02:58
See guys doing shiny fires. To confirm you copy that last note about CHB, the truck can go wrong way, southbound five under the other pass.
03:10
Copy that, we are going to have truck 56 do that for the rescue group.
03:17
Okay, I see if we're trying to fire, copy.
03:23
Just can't fire, or take IC[2].
03:27
Take I see. Take guys,
03:28
sir, for us for us.
03:29
Truck 56 is going to be rescue group. Truck 24 will be working for rescue group.
03:36
Additionally, Medic 7 will establish medical group.
03:41
All right, sir, sir.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
ICP: Incident Command Post
[2]
IC: Person in charge of managing and coordinating the overall response to an incident.
[3]
CHP: California Highway Patrol, the state agency responsible for highway law enforcement and traffic safety.

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I-5, California

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Incident Timeline

  1. Rescue Operations and Negotiations
  2. Rescue Preparations and Unified Command
  3. Rescue Group Organization and Situation Update
  4. Staging and Command Establishment
  5. Initial Response and Freeway Closure

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