EMS dispatch audio captures emergency response before Lindsey Graham death announcement

Emergency dispatch audio reviewed by Fox News Digital captures the exigency effect to Sen. Lindsey Graham's Washington, D.C., location Saturday night, revealing archetypal responders were dispatched for a reported cardiac apprehension earlier the senator's bureau announced his decease Sunday morning.

District of Columbia Fire and EMS vigor postulation shows the archetypal dispatch came soon aft 8 p.m. section time, erstwhile responders were sent to Graham's location for a reported cardiac arrest. 

As units responded, dispatchers relayed that the caller reported the beforehand doorway was unlocked. But aft arriving and uncovering the doorway was locked with nary effect from inside, archetypal responders requested Metropolitan Police Department officers respond to unit entry.

Roughly 20 to 25 minutes aft the archetypal dispatch, vigor postulation indicated CPR was successful advancement arsenic exigency crews worked wrong the home. The audio does not place Graham by sanction oregon picture the patient's condition.

Authorities could beryllium heard successful further vigor postulation saying the incidental would beryllium handled arsenic a "Capitol Police substance only." The last applicable vigor postulation came done soon aft 9:30 p.m.

SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM DEAD AT 71 AFTER 'BRIEF AND SUDDEN' ILLNESS, OFFICE SAYS

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., died connected Saturday, July 11, 2026. He was 71. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

The dispatch recordings supply fewer further details astir what responders encountered wrong the residence oregon what aesculapian care, if any, was provided earlier Graham's death.

Graham's bureau aboriginal announced the 71-year-old legislator died Saturday evening pursuing a "brief and sudden" illness.

"On the evening of Saturday, July 11, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham passed distant from a little and abrupt illness," his bureau wrote successful a statement.

"Senator Graham's household appreciates prayers astatine this clip and asks for privateness during this incredibly hard period," the connection continued.

LINDSEY GRAHAM, SOUTH CAROLINA SENATOR WHO ROSE FROM SMALL-TOWN ROOTS TO GOP POWER BROKER, DIES AT 71

Emergency dispatch audio reviewed by Fox News Digital documents the exigency effect earlier Graham's bureau announced his death. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for the District of Columbia released preliminary findings connected Sunday suggesting Graham died from an aortic dissection owed to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

"The preliminary introspection findings were: Aortic Dissection owed to Arteriosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease," according to the aesculapian examiner's office.

Officials added Graham's decease certificate volition stay pending until toxicology and microscopic investigating are complete. 

"The decease certificate volition beryllium PENDING until each the toxicological and microscopic investigating are finalized and astatine that constituent the decease certificate volition beryllium updated to bespeak the origin of decease and appropriately classify the mode of death," the aesculapian examiner's bureau said.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to DC Fire and EMS and the U.S. Capitol Police for further accusation astir the exigency response.

FROM 'DISGRACE' TO 'FAMILY': TRUMP'S REMARKABLE JOURNEY WITH LINDSEY GRAHAM

President Donald Trump called Graham a "true American Patriot" successful a Truth Social station honoring him. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

President Donald Trump paid tribute to Graham successful a Truth Social station Saturday night, calling the longtime South Carolina lawmaker "a existent American Patriot."

"Senator Lindsey Graham, 1 of the top radical and Senators I person ever known, is dead!" Trump wrote. "He was ever working, and was a existent American Patriot. Lindsey volition beryllium greatly missed!!! DETAILS AND ARRANGEMENTS TO FOLLOW. So sad!"

Graham was elected to the U.S. Senate successful 2002 and took bureau successful 2003 aft serving 4 presumption successful the U.S. House of Representatives. He won re-election 3 times and was seeking a 5th Senate word aft winning the Republican superior past month.

He served arsenic president of the Senate Budget Committee and sat connected the Appropriations, Judiciary, and Environment and Public Works committees.

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The longtime lawmaker had conscionable met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy successful Kyiv connected Friday and was scheduled to look connected NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday morning.

Beyond Congress, Graham served for 33 years successful the U.S. Air Force, Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve, retiring arsenic a colonel successful 2015. 

An Air Force lawyer, helium served successful Germany during the Cold War, was called to progressive work during the Gulf War and aboriginal completed aggregate Reserve deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan during legislature recesses.