You are injured/ill, alone, & losing consciousness

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You’ve fallen or had a seizure/ stroke, etc. You were able to reach the phone and dial 911, but then you began to lose consciousness.

My question: Will EMTs bash down your door? Waiting for a landlord/rental office or family member takes time. Do EMTs have to call police? What about locking your place when they take you out? I’m guessing they look in your wallet and call someone.

But mainly I’m wondering under what circumstances they can force entry if the caller is hurt/ill?
 

I sent a PM to the member "911" (retired law enforcement). Hoping he will weigh in on this and also the "You find bag of money" thread.
 

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911 will instruct you to sit by an unlocked door and wait for the EMTs to arrive.

I don't know what the rules are regarding breaking down the door, perhaps hunting an alternate ingress.
 
Falcon said:
911 will instruct you to sit by an unlocked door and wait for the EMTs to arrive.

I don't know what the rules are regarding breaking down the door, perhaps hunting an alternate ingress.
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But if you're losing conscousness, or are injured in a fall, etc. you can't get to the door to unlock it.
 
I belong to a local site called "On The Scanner". It reports on what`s going on around the county.And yes,they do break in when necessary. They also secure the door when they leave and leave a notice explaining what happened.
 
Outside my front door is a little "safelike" box containing a key to my home. The police and Fire Dept have a special type key that get them into it.IMG_0021.jpg
 
289074]Outside my front door is a little "safelike" box containing a key to my home. The police and Fire Dept have a special type key that get them into it.View attachment 18988[/QUOTE]

If every police, Fire and EMT employee has a key to this safe, it's hard to imagine that criminals wouldn't get a hold of one too.
 
applecruncher said:
You’ve fallen or had a seizure/ stroke, etc. You were able to reach the phone and dial 911, but then you began to lose consciousness.

My question: Will EMTs bash down your door? Waiting for a landlord/rental office or family member takes time. Do EMTs have to call police? What about locking your place when they take you out? I’m guessing they look in your wallet and call someone.

But mainly I’m wondering under what circumstances they can force entry if the caller is hurt/ill?
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I think the authorities will force an entrance if you're unable to answer the door.
 
Josiah said:
289074]Outside my front door is a little "safelike" box containing a key to my home. The police and Fire Dept have a special type key that get them into it.View attachment 18988
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If every police, Fire and EMT employee has a key to this safe, it's hard to imagine that criminals wouldn't get a hold of one too.
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The boxes use a key that is peculiar to a police beat or a "first in" fire department division. If a crook wants in to your home, you CANNOT keep him out.
 
My husband was an EMT.. IF they can look in a window and they see the person lying on the floor, they will break in, If they cannot see anyone inside, they get the police there and the police will break down the door
 
Reminds me of my daughter`s neighbor Andy years ago. Daughter had a home daycare and I watched it one day while she went to the doctor. I was standing at the front window and saw Andy walk out his front door like he was going to go out for his mail He lived alone. Then he turned around and went back to his porch and kind of sat down hard on the bench he had there. Looked a little bit like he staggered but I wasn`t sure. Of course,he was known to have a drink or two everyday too. The previous Thanksgiving we took him over a plate of food and another meal packed up in a container and he gruffly told my son in law "Don`t want it". So we weren`t all that fond of him. Anyway,I told my daughter to watch for him because I thought he might not be well. She watched for a day or so and never saw him so she went to the guy next door-who was REALLY an old grump,(some (most) called him an a-hole)and mentioned what I had seen. So Tom went and looked in the front window and there was Andy on the living room floor. He was dead. We felt realy bad that we hadn`t gone over or called someone sooner but I really have a feeling he died minutes after I saw him. We`ll never know though. By the way,in answer to another thread earlier today,about buying a house where someone had died,I did end up buying Andy`s house. Not immediately-some lady bought it as a rental but was going to lose it a couple of years later, so I bought it from her. Sold it 5 years ago because I hate being a landlord lol. Oh,by the way,the cops did break into Andy`s house that day too...
 
At my age I hope the incident would be fatal so the sense of urgency wouldn't develop until neighbors complained about the smell...
 
My son is a volunteer firefighter. I had asked him this for myself before. He says the police will have the firefighters gain entry.
 

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