Emergency on First Street

While I was having a light dinner, I heard the radio scanner light up with a medical call that was a address I recognized immediately as being the house opposite ours on the street that runs across the back side of our property. We are only a short distance from the fire station, so I was not surprised that by the time we got to the back gate, one of the rescue units from Station 61 was pulling up to the house. Shortly thereafter, a Lyon County Sheriff's department car arrived, and then, for reasons I never did learn about, a fire truck from Station 61 also arrived.

( Staying Behind the Fence )

Other vehicles came and went, including two other rescue units, one of which did not stay long and headed back to the station.

We learned a tiny bit more by going inside the house, where eventually the call on the radio was "10-79," which means "call coroner." Not too long thereafter, the fire and rescue units left the scene, although the sheriff stayed awaiting the arrival of a vehicle to deal with the deceased.

There were a few more details that I know about but which I won't include here out of respect for the parties involved.