Crash survivor recounts how iPhone SOS feature led to helicopter rescue in Angeles National Forest - KABC-TV

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ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. (KABC) -- A pistillate who survived a car clang successful the Angeles National Forest recounted however an iPhone 14 exigency SOS diagnostic helped summon a rescue helicopter aft the conveyance plunged astir 300 feet into a canyon.

Shortly before, 2 p.m. Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Crescenta Valley presumption received a notification from an iPhone 14 via outer service, the bureau said. The victims, Cloe Fields and her boyfriend, had been progressive successful a single-vehicle clang adjacent mile marker 18.87 successful Monkey Canyon, wherever their car went "off the broadside of the mountain," according to the Montrose Search and Rescue Team.

In an interrogation with ABC7, Fields said she and her fellow were traveling connected the Angeles National Forest Highway erstwhile a operator sped past them. The victims' conveyance veered disconnected of the road and dropped hundreds of feet to the bottommost of the rocky canyon.

"They were successful a distant canyon with nary cellular telephone service" and were capable to extricate themselves from the vehicle, the Search and Rescue Team said successful a statement.

Fields said she had precocious upgraded to an iPhone 14, which includes a caller exigency SOS strategy that uses crash-detection and outer technology.

"Immediately the telephone said 'crash detected, exigency services person been contacted," she said.

Using the iPhone feature, Fields and her fellow were capable to pass to a relay halfway via text, authorities said.

"I don't cognize if it was a existent idiosyncratic -- if it was, convey God," Fields said. "They knew my sanction already erstwhile I was saying my name, what happened, injuries, we're each OK, delight assistance us.'"

The halfway contacted the station, which dispatched the Search and Rescue Team, L.A. County firefighters, sheriff's patrol units and a helicopter.

After the telephone halfway provided the latitude and longitude of the victims' location, the rescue chopper was capable to find them wrong 30 minutes and lowered a paramedic via cable. The mates had each suffered mild to mean injuries successful the crash, which near their conveyance overturned astatine the bottommost of the canyon.

Video provided by the Sheriff's Department shows the victims being hoisted into the helicopter. They were past transported to a hospital, authorities said.

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