Semi truck stopped on shoulder for medical emergency, Wheat Ridge CO


A semi-truck is stopped on the right shoulder near mile marker 248-249 on I-70 westbound. Emergency services responded for a possible medical emergency and requested assistance for traffic blocking. There is no confirmed traffic backup or blockage seen on cameras.
Audio|Source: Mountain Area Sheriff and Fire Departments
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Transcript:
00:00
Any more information on this medical system? What's wrong with the driver? What's drunk is (name withheld)?
00:05
We're working on that now.
00:09
I'm coming.
00:10
Tashmail, I'm going to see.
00:12
Copy 1730.
00:18
I don't know for sure what they thought the highway was according to CDOT, looking at their cameras, they don't see any semi-blocking or traffic backup indicating trucks that they're a blockage,
00:33
but they do see a semi on the shoulder at the 249.
00:40
That's a precautionary measure.
00:51
At 10122.
00:54
Yeah, can we go ahead and start foothill for traffic blocking.
01:02
I'm not stopping on the highway anymore. I do show a tractor trailer on the right shoulder.
01:08
Just east of County Road 65 in the area of the 249.
01:16
Message received.
01:21
132 Firefirefire call on.
01:24
Go ahead.
01:28
Yeah, I'm by Tuesday. Do you want me to grab one for two?
01:32
You're playing!
01:42
Freeze for blocking on a semi-truck.
01:46
Holdover on the highway for a possible medical emergency with Evergreen Fire. mile marker 248 I-70 westbound 3-18 for Foothills and rescue mutual aid requests from Evergreen for blocking apparatus on a medical emergency I-70 West and in the area of mile marker 248.
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Location mentioned:
Kipling, Wheat Ridge, CO 80033
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