Lindsey Graham dispatch audio reveals cardiac arrest call at DC home

Emergency dispatch audio reviewed by Fox News Digital records an emergency response Saturday night at Senator Lindsey Graham’s Washington, D.C. home and reveals that first responders were dispatched to report a heart attack before the senator’s office announced his death Sunday morning.

District of Columbia Fire and EMS radio traffic indicates that first responders arrived shortly after 8 p.m. local time, when responders were dispatched to Graham’s home for a report of a heart attack.

As units responded, dispatchers reported that the caller reported that the front door was unlocked. But after arriving and noticing the door was locked and there was no response from inside, first responders asked Metropolitan Police Department officers to respond to the break-in.

Approximately 20 to 25 minutes after the initial dispatch, radio traffic indicated CPR was in progress as emergency crews worked inside the home. The audio recording does not identify Graham by name or describe the patient’s condition.

Officials were heard saying in other radio traffic that the incident would be treated as a “Capitol Police matter only.” The last relevant radio traffic arrived shortly after 9:30 p.m.

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Dispatch records provide few additional details about what responders encountered at the residence or what medical care, if any, was provided before Graham’s death.

Graham’s office later announced that the 71-year-old senator died Saturday evening following a “brief and sudden” illness.

“On Saturday evening, July 11, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham passed away due to a brief and sudden illness,” his office said in a statement. The statement was included.

The statement continued: “Senator Graham’s family appreciates prayers at this time and asks for privacy during this incredibly difficult time.”

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Audio of the emergency dispatch reviewed by Fox News Digital documents the emergency response before Graham’s office announced his death. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

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

According to the medical examiner’s office, “Preliminary examination findings were: Aortic Dissection Due to Arteriosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease.”

Graham’s death certificate will remain pending until toxicology and microscopic tests are completed, officials added.

“The death certificate will be PENDANT until all toxicological and microscopic testing is completed, at which point the death certificate will be updated to reflect the cause of death and appropriately classify the manner of death,” the medical examiner’s office said. he said.

Fox News Digital has contacted DC Fire, EMS and U.S. Capitol Police for additional information regarding the emergency response.

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President Donald Trump called Graham “a true American Patriot” in a post honoring him on Truth Social. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

President Donald Trump paid tribute to Graham in a post on Truth Social Saturday night, calling the longtime South Carolina lawmaker a “true American Patriot.”

“Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the greatest men and Senators I have ever known, has died!” Trump wrote. “He was always working and a true American Patriot. Lindsey will be greatly missed!!! DETAILS AND EDITS TO FOLLOW. So sad!”

Graham was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2002 and took office in 2003 after serving four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. He has been re-elected three times and was running for a fifth Senate term after winning the Republican primary last month.

He chaired the Senate Budget Committee and sat on the Appropriations, Judiciary, and Environment and Public Works committees.

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The longtime lawmaker had met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kiev on Friday and was scheduled to appear on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday morning.

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

An Air Force attorney who served in Germany during the Cold War, he was called to active duty during the Gulf War and later completed multiple Reserve deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan during congressional recesses.