Apple Siri Helps Four Year Old Save Unconscious Mom
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Posted on 03/24/2017 12:16:56 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Metropolitan Police in London have released a clip of a 999 call from a four-year-old boy who saved his mum’s life to remind parents the importance of teaching young children their address and how to use 999 in an emergency.
The young boy called 999 from his mum’s mobile phone on Tuesday, 7 March and was put through to a police call handler.
After the call handler asked him where his mummy was, the boy responded that he thought she was dead because “she’s closing her eyes and she’s not breathing.”
Remaining calm, the call handler managed to keep the boy talking and found out where he lived in Kenley, Croydon and local officers and an ambulance were immediately sent to the address. Because the boy was able to give the call handler the correct address, it saved police vital minutes in being able to send officers to the address straight away.
Thirteen minutes after receiving the call, officers arrived and managed to force entry inside the house where they found the boy with his twin brother and younger brother all inside with their mum, who was lying unconscious on the floor. Paramedics were able to give life-saving first aid to the woman and she was taken to hospital after regaining consciousness at the home.
It later emerged that the boy used his mum’s smartphone to get in touch with police. He firstly managed to unlock it by pressing her thumb on the phone and then used the ‘Siri’ function to ask for help and it dialled 999 to put him through to emergency services.
Chief Superintendent Ade Adelekan, from the Met’s Command and Control Unit (MetCC), where 999 calls are handled, said: “Hearing this call brings home the importance of teaching your young child their home address and how to call police or emergency services in an emergency situation.
“If you do nothing else today, then I’d implore any parents of young children to sit down with them and make sure they know what to do in this kind of situation and that they know how to contact police or other emergency services in an emergency. As this case demonstrates so poignantly, it could really be the difference between life and death.
“It’s an amazing story and thanks to his quick thinking and by asking ‘Siri’ for help, this little boy saved his mum’s life and it means she is still here and can be extremely proud of him and his brothers.”
Source: Metropolitan Police (London, UK)
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Police were able to get there in 13 minutes! Wow what a great response time. As they say, when seconds count, the police are only minutes away. Good kid though. Love the British accents.
How many adults would have thought of that?...................
...used the ‘Siri’ function to ask for help and it dialled 999...
What great advertising for Apple, they couldn’t have better adverstizing if they made it up.
Imagine back when there were dial phones and you had to dial 999 for help when you’re injured or all shot through with adrenalin and you missed the third 9 and had to start all over again?
I'm a Samsung/Android user.
Is it really true that one has to unlock an Apple Phone to make an emergency call?
ML/NJ
I don’t know. I don’t have a cellphone..................
No. iPhones allow emergency calls without needing access to the phone.
iPhones also have an app which you can put your health info into (meds, contact info, blood type, etc); it can be made available at the owner's discretion, on the login screen, should the owner be incapacitated.
No.
Siri is also available on a locked phone at the owners discretion.
On my iPhone, when it is locked and you press on the Home button, if not recognizing your fingerprint it will then display a keypad to type in a password. On the bottom left of that display is "Emergency". Press that and someone other than the owner can contact emergency services. That keypad comes in handy if you have gloves on or soiled fingers.
On my Apple Watch, if you press and hold the lower button on the right, you will be presented with two options - one is to shut down, the other is to call emergency services. I accidentally did that once the day I first tried on the Apple Watch, and quickly tried to cancel out. 911 emergency services immediately called the Watch announcing themselves on the Watch speaker, and I immediately apologized for the errant call. Incredible device, you don't need to press buttons if unlocked, just ask Siri to do requests.
Young children have not yet been taught not to think by public school indoctrination.
That’s the first thing I thought of, too. It is incredible a 4-year old thought to press Mum’s thumb onto the sensor. What a bright kid.
At first I thought the English 999 service must have been introduced AFTER touch-tone phones were introduced, but I was way off. Wiki — “First introduced in the London area on 30 June 1937, the UK’s 999 number is the world’s oldest emergency call telephone service.”
I had no idea universal Help 999 was available that far back. You’re right...dialing that on a rotary phone dial would have been a pain. I remember hating it when I was dialing a 9 or a 0 and my finger slipped, then had to start all over.
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