NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Recordings of emergency calls made the night Christa Pike survived a failed execution at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution reveal confusion over who had contacted emergency dispatchers and how first responders could enter the prison. The Nashville Department of Emergency Communications released 10 calls made between 8:46 p.m. and 9:11 p.m. on Sept. 30 between dispatchers and people or agencies involved in the response. A separate call from the prison at 8:40 p.m. was not released. Metro Legal determined that recording was exempt from public disclosure under Tennessee law. In that initial call, a prison representative told a dispatcher that staff had administered 10 grams of pentobarbital during an execution about an hour earlier, but Pike was not dead and an ambulance was needed. Asked whether she had chest pain, the caller said they did not know and that Pike was unconscious. At 8:59 p.m., a Metro dispatcher called the Tennessee Department of Correction’s Central Control seeking to verify the situation. The dispatcher said first responders were standing by. After the employee checked with the facility, the employee told the dispatcher that no one there had called and there was “not really anything to speak of at this moment.” Pike’s attorney called emergency dispatch at 9:08 p.m., saying her client was still alive and breathing and needed immediate lifesaving care. In the final call, three minutes later, a dispatcher asked the Tennessee Highway Patrol to send a trooper—or a Metro Nashville police officer—to the prison gate so emergency crews could get inside. Responders initially could not enter because they did not have an access code, which the department employee on the first dispatch call did not have. Witnesses leaving the prison around 9:15 p.m. said Pike had survived after receiving two doses of pentobarbital. She was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. The calls offer a timeline of the emergency response after an execution attempt failed, including the reported delay in getting first responders through the prison gate. The first call’s audio remains undisclosed under the state-law exemption cited by Metro Legal.