Dead or Alive - Knoxville Fire Department’s Engine 15

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🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

On July 25, 2025, three Knoxville Fire Department responders mistakenly pronounced a woman dead at a home. Minutes later, the death investigator arrived, noticed signs of life, and intervened by administering Narcan and providing first aid, successfully reviving the individual. How did this happen? And how could it be prevented in the future?

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0:00.0	Stoveleg Media
0:02.4	Igniting Conversation
0:04.2	Welcome to True
0:12.8	Come to go
0:14.0	What can I get for you?
0:16.1	Yeah, hey, just random question.
0:17.7	Have you ever watched Mindy Python?
0:19.6	You know, I love the scene where it's he's like bring out you dead
0:23.1	and the guy's like I'm not dead I got that
0:24.9	home up to the second window and we'll see you next crime
0:27.7	welcome to true crime cast
0:32.5	this is John here with Jamie she always cuts me off
0:35.3	and never lets me finish what I'm wanting to say
0:37.1	kind of on her side this time it was was a little, Fair enough. A little long in the tooth. You ever watch Monty Python? Oh, of course. You don't know what I'm talking about? I love that. Yeah. So much. What happened? I got better. I think I'll go for a walk now. Yeah. So that is, I mean, not too different from what we're talking about here.
0:58.2	Yeah, today we're going to be talking about a case out of one of the best places on Earth,
1:02.6	Knoxville, Tennessee, when the fire department there responded to pronounce a person dead.
1:09.5	So, you know, sometimes things happen, right? Like you're someone, you're caring for a person dead. So, you know, sometimes things happen, right?
1:12.4	Like you're caring for a loved one who's sick and they pass away.
1:17.2	You have to call and get things taken care of.
1:20.4	But they actually pronounced a person dead who was actually quite alive.
1:26.5	What happened?
1:31.8	Yeah. And I mean, this is unfortunately happens a lot more than i think people would imagine when people are pronounced dead this began on july 25th of this year
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