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To: A Citizen Reporter

If you just put the post number up in the address line above here, at the end, in place of the current post number, you can go straight to it.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1781543/posts?page=8579#8579

That you for that audio. I don't have a source other than NBC, and that this is obviously an interview that was done with the Hollywood Fire and Rescue crews, the afternoon of 8 Feb 2007. I transcribed everything but the very last sentence, which I could not make out.




Interviewer: Hello?

Unidentified voice: I'm ready

Int: OK, Here we go. You got everything? OK, just give me your name and your title, please

UV: Matthew Phillips, Hollywood Fire Rescue department spokesperson

Int: OK Matt, what can you tell us about what transpired this afternoon at the Hard Rock facility.

MP: Hollywood Fire Rescue received a phone call shortly after 2:00 to respond to the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino located on the Seminole Indian Reservation in Hollywood, Florida. Upon arrival our rescue crews were escorted to a guest room where they found an unresponsive female subject. At that time she was not breathing. We began our standard protocol of CPR and everything that goes with it, we then transported this female to Hollywood Memorial Regional Hospital, in Hollywood Florida.

Int: OK, this female, at the time she was being transported, was she still alive at the time she left the hospital..... or the time she left the hotel?

Phillips: She was not breathing and she was not responsive when our rescue crews arrived at the hotel.

Interviewer: Were the people that were with her able to give you any information about what transpired before she became unresponsive to them?

Phillips: I have received no information as far as any bystanders or whatever statements they were able to give to our rescue crew.

Interviewer: Was she in the room alone?

Phillips: Stand by. (To someone else:Was she in the room alone?)

Unidentified voice: She was in the room alone, she was found by her body guard who is a Miami paramedic.) Unintelligible noise.

Phillips: She was found by our rescue crew, alone in the room, and we were notified by her personal bodyguard.

Interviewer: OK, what can you tell us and I know there's certain restrictions about the information but in a situation like this, give us some idea what your paramedics would have done when they arrived on the scene to try to assist her.

Phillips:Stand by one moment. (To someone else: Do you want to go through basically what you guys did upon your arrival? He's asking, this is....yeah this is NBC.

Interviewer: Hey look, are you with the paramedics that were there?

Phillips: Pardon?

Interviewer: Are you with the paramedics that went to the call? Phillips: No, I'm not with the paramedics who were there, but we did have an engine crew respond.

Interviewer: OK, is one of them, that was actually there in the room with you?

Phillips: Yes, hold on

Interviewer: OK, thank you.

Unidentified voice: Hello

Interviewer: Yes, who am I speaking with now?

UV: This is Captain Fitzgerald.

Interviewer: Captain Fitzgerald, you were one of the people that responded to the scene?

Cpt Fitzgerald: Yes

Int: Tell me what happened when you arrived.

CF: Seminole rescue was already in the room with a lot of Seminole security, also her bodyguard and her husband, Howard Stern was on scene. He was concerned ...... so he was giving us her medical history.

Int: What was the situation with her when you arrived at the room?

CF: Seminole rescue was attempting CPR at the time Hollywood rescue 74 stepped in and took over the scene, intubated the patient, that means put the tube down the throat. We started an IV, we pushed all the medications, we took took 12 EDKGs [?] we attempted pacing her which would be an external pacemaker for the heart and we had electrical captures but no mechanical capture, which meant we couldn't get her heart beating.

Int: Was we alive when you all arrived?

CF: No, she was unconscious and not breathing.

Int: What did the family members or the bodyguard tell you about what transpired in the minutes up to that.

CF: That he came back to the room and found her unconscious. He put her on the floor and started CPR and called for help.

Int: Tell me, not just with her, but when you find a person under these kinds of circumstances and situations, cause we know there is certain information that you can't give out specifically, what do your people do, what would be a standard procedure in a case like this?

CF: Well, we would start with the basics. We've got to start with CPR, and then we intubate, put a tube down into the lungs so that we can control the airway, and we start CPR, start an IV, and without all the information from witnesses there's just certain medications that we push automatically, like Narcan for any chance of overdose, bicarb [?] cause we didn't know how long she was down, and epinephrine is like an adrenaline to start the heart, to get the heart started back on it's own, atropine ...there's a whole list of medications that we do as far as protocols go.

Int: Did she respond at all to anything you tried to do to help her?

CF: No, not that I saw.

Int: And the family members, was there anything that they said to you, that transpired during the course of the morning or early afternoon that would have given you any indication or given them any indication that she could have experienced this kind of trauma?

CF: No, we didn't get any information to that. As far as we know, she was left in the room, and then when they came back to the room, she was not breathing.

Int: Is there anything else you can add about what transpired in terms of your call and the time that you were there with her, before she was transported to the hospital.

CF: I mean, the inter-agencies worked real well together, Hollywood Fire Rescue and Seminole rescue was on scene. Seminole security for the Hard Rock cleared the hallways to transport her downstairs to get her in the truck. And then she did have a .....so all the agencies worked together as well as we could have, given the circumstances. There was just no way of knowing how long she'd been down, before she was discovered, which could make all the difference in the world. When you witness somebody pass out, then you can initiate care immediately. But if somebody passes out and its not witnessed, and they lay there for 20 minutes or so before they are found, it makes a much more difficult scenario to work our protocols and be successful.

Int: So you don't have any idea how long she could have been unconscious before you guys arrived?

CF: No, we never did get that information, how long she was left alone...no.

Int: And it's your belief that she was already deceased when you arrived on the scene?

CF: That's what......[????] a day or two?


17,526 posted on 02/27/2007 1:25:59 PM PST by Rte66
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To: Rte66

Sounds like she was in PEA, pulseless electrical activity, or a Bradycardia.


17,529 posted on 02/27/2007 1:31:53 PM PST by pitinkie (revenge will be sweet)
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To: Rte66

Sounds like she was in PEA, pulseless electrical activity, or a Bradycardia since they were trying to Pace her.


17,530 posted on 02/27/2007 1:32:13 PM PST by pitinkie (revenge will be sweet)
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To: Rte66

huh? This doesn't match what Slow Mo or Bridget or nurse has been saying.....does it? She was alone and they came back and found her? So many different stories....

I think Goat was there when she died and he had to get the hey out of there. The only other person there was MO. He got his wife to stay with Anna, knowing what would happen. I think the suprise was Bridget(?) showing up....since she's the one who actually found Anna....after she'd been there for a while. Nurse wife wasn't supposed to check on Anna. Anna was supposedly sleeping.


17,544 posted on 02/27/2007 1:47:25 PM PST by Jrabbit ('scuse me??)
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To: Rte66
"If you just put the post number up in the address line above here, at the end, in place of the current post number, you can go straight to it."

Thank you! That's what I didn't know.

17,555 posted on 02/27/2007 2:00:18 PM PST by A Citizen Reporter
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To: Rte66
Phillips: Stand by. (To someone else:Was she in the room alone?)
Unidentified voice: She was in the room alone, she was found by her body guard who is a Miami paramedic.) Unintelligible noise.
Phillips: She was found by our rescue crew, alone in the room, and we were notified by her personal bodyguard.

WOW! This is yet another conflict with what Big Mo told Greta last night and both storied conflict with what Bridget told Rita Cosby and Big Mo's wife told one of the tabloid TV reporters. I wish Greta would compare all these stories and start publically asking why they are all so out of sync.

17,582 posted on 02/27/2007 2:17:41 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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