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Bmoreman t1_ita2rvo wrote

>According to multiple sources familiar with the 911 call, an elderly woman calmly said her male roommate was on the floor. The woman said she wanted to call for help before the man ended up on the floor, but he refused. The call-taker asked if the man was conscious. While the caller replied yes, she also said he wasn’t responding when she called out to him. The woman was asked if the only reason help was needed was to get him off the floor. She answered by saying the man needed his vital signs checked and other things. She wasn’t sure if he would be willing to go to the hospital. The caller also mentioned she couldn’t lift him because he was dead weight.

Obviously it seems like there were opportunities to catch this earlier, but I think the reality isn't quite as salacious as the title suggests. We'd need to hear the call to make a full decision.

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keyjan t1_itbq78c wrote

I think the dispatcher heard “lift” and the “yes” to being “conscious,” and assumed he was OK, just unable to get up. The key words were that he did not respond to her (the roommate) when she called out to him. I'm not a dispatcher and I don’t play one on tv, but that would have sent my antenna up and I would have asked her to go over and shake him or something and see if he would respond. If not, send the bus L&S.

As I said in my first post, some retraining is in order here (or changing the existing training on how calls like this are answered).

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