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A heroic FDNY dispatcher went beyond the call of duty — staying on the phone with an elderly Upper East Side stroke victim for nearly eight hours while rescuers struggled to pinpoint the woman’s location. EMT Joann Hilman-Payne took the call from Mary Thomas at about 1 p.m. Monday — and kept the line open as emergency responders tried to find Thomas’ address, according to FDNY documents obtained by The Post. Rescue workers were first dispatched to an East 71st Street address based on a cellphone tower relaying Thomas’ call. But she wasn’t at that location.

"Amina Lawal is the Nigerian woman who was condemned to death by stoning for adultery, in accordance with Sharia Law. Death is inflicted by burying the victim in sand up to his/her neck, and then killing the victim by hurling stones at his/her head. The details of the case are given below. The object of this post is to call upon readers to sign a petition to Nigeria's president, requesting that the death sentence be overturned. The petition is available on several sites, such as this one in Spanish and this site in English. The foregoing sites organizing the petition...