Welfare Check

I was dispatched to a welfare check the other day at a retirement community. The dispatcher said an elderly woman's son had tried to get into his mother's apartment but couldn't because it was dead bolted from the inside and she would not come to the door.

My Sgt. and I arrived on scene and located the apartment but not the son. We tried looking in windows to see if we could see anything but couldn't because of the blinds. A maintenance man arrived with a key and unlocked the door for us, it was not locked from the inside.

As soon as we made entry we could see the legs of a person laying on the floor. We went in and found an elderly woman collapsed on the floor. My Sgt. called for an ambulance and the firemen that were already on scene began to tend to the woman. From what the firemen said she was not in good shape.