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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 453: Making an Emergency Medical Call.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast number 453. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in (guess where?) beautiful Los Angeles, California.

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This episode is called “Making an Emergency Medical Call.” It’s a telephone conversation between an “emergency operator” (somebody who answers the phone calls for the government’s police and fire emergency system) and someone who has an emergency. Let’s get started.

Operator: Emergency operator. State your emergency.

Dirk: We need an ambulance right away.

Operator: What is your name?

Dirk: Dirk, Dirk Omora.

Operator: Can you tell me what happened?

Dirk: There was a car accident.

Operator: Where are you?

Dirk: I’m not sure. I was driving