Medical helicopter mission canceled due to thick fog, Salyersville KY
Medical EmergencyA medical helicopter flight was canceled because thick fog over restaurant row prevented safe landing and patient transport.
Audio|Source: Magoffin County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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10-4[1]. We're showing five minutes out.
00:04
Give you advise if it looks like it is foggy there on the strip,
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we're flying over some pretty thick valley fog.
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118, there's very little on the ground here where I'm at, but I know it makes us a difference when you're in the air.
00:29
Okay,
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well, we'll look at it while we get there,
00:33
you have a patient update,
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or is Patriot there up my LZ[2].
00:43
She's still out from her last seizure.
00:47
She hasn't walked her back up yet.
00:49
She's got here to the moment. I was like to talk to me on the radio.
00:54
I'll check with him in a minute, but you've got the crass LV back here.
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Everything's temple with me.
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See, look off the ground contact.
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Ground contact to 118 area back. Just try to make contact.
01:29
There's a pretty thick layer of fog sitting right over top of restaurant row there, so we're not going to be able to take this flight. They're going to have to go back around.
01:42
10.4.118, I'll advise the crew.
01:45
We appreciate your responding.
01:49
TN4. Sorry about that. It's just up a little higher and we can't break through that with for safety concerns, so...
01:57
At TN4 we want everybody at least safe.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment / Message received
[2]
LZ: Landing Zone (designated helicopter landing area for medevac operations)
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Location mentioned:
Salyersville, KY 41465
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