Austin emergency personnel received a call about a construction worker experiencing a heat-related medical issue at a downtown construction site Sunday afternoon.
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin Fire Department and Austin-Travis County EMS are tending to a construction worker experiencing a heat-related issue on a construction site in downtown Austin Sunday afternoon.
AFD officials tweeted late Sunday afternoon they responded to a worker in need of medical attention "from a crane scaffold about 6 stories high" off a downtown construction site. ATCEMS tweeted the call came in around 3:43 p.m. Sunday at 80 Red River Street.
In an additional update Sunday afternoon, ATCEMS added the patient "has been packaged & will be extricated from the crane using a ropes system." An ATCEMS rescue medic will accompany the worker during the extrication, officials added.
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