BELGIUM - A Belgium woman's suicide attempt was thwarted Wednesday when an Ozaukee County sheriff's dispatcher was able to direct rescue personnel to the woman's house based on the sound of sirens he heard over the woman's phone.
The confusing series of events, which is still under investigation, began around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday when the woman dialed 911 on her home phone - even though it was disconnected - and somehow reached a Washington County Sheriff's Department dispatcher in West Bend.
"She told someone there that she needed an ambulance and that she was going unconscious," Ozaukee County sheriff's Sgt. Brian Glocke said.
The call was transferred to Ozaukee County Sheriff's Department dispatcher Christian Hill, to whom the woman gave an address on the east side of Belgium and then apparently passed out, leaving the phone line open.
Arrived at wrong address
At about 10:43 a.m., Belgium emergency medical personnel arrived at the east side address and discovered that the woman had given them the wrong address, Glocke said.
Hill, though, radioed to rescue personnel and sheriff's deputies' that he heard their vehicles' sirens over the open phone line as they passed near the woman's residence.
So, they retraced their routes to the west end of the village with their sirens on until Hill could clearly hear them again - about a mile away from the address the woman had originally given.
To help pinpoint the precise address, Glocke altered the tone of his patrol car's siren, giving Hill two different sounds by which he could direct rescuers as they drove closer to the woman's residence.
Similar address was right
Around 11 a.m., a sheriff's deputy knocked on the door of a duplex that had a similar address as the first residence, but no one answered.
A Belgium firefighter then yelled through an open window.
Hill could clearly hear the firefighter's voice, so deputies and firefighters entered the residence and found the woman "in the process of a suicide attempt," Glocke said.
The woman, whose name is not being released, was transported to Columbia St. Mary's Ozaukee Campus, where she was being treated for non-life threatening injuries Wednesday evening, Glocke said.
"She obviously wanted our help," he said.
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