Lawrence police responded to a call during the weekend from a man who called 911 to say he had just crawled out of a creek and needed help. When officers found the man, he was intoxicated and unconscious but otherwise unharmed.

When the cell phone call came in about 4:20 a.m. Saturday, the caller asked for help at “The Reserves,” according to a police report released Monday. Then his voice on the phone line faded, police said, but he didn’t hang up and the call remained open.

Dispatchers tracked the call using the county’s enhanced 911 system to roughly the 2700 block of West 31st Street.

Once there, officers began calling for the man, and dispatchers who were listening to the phone line told them when their voices got louder or quieter, police spokeswoman Kim Murphree said. Eventually, officers found the man lying in the grass south of 31st Street wet and unconscious but uninjured.

Police took him back to his home in the 2200 block of Harper Street.