iPhone 14's emergency SOS satellite feature leads to rescue after car crash in Angeles National Forest's Monkey Canyon - WTVD-TV

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MONKEY CANYON, Calif. -- A antheral and pistillate utilized an iPhone 14's exigency SOS diagnostic and were rescued Tuesday aft their car plunged immoderate 300 feet into a canyon successful the Angeles National Forest, authorities said.

Shortly before, 2 p.m., 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, some successful their 20s, 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.

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

Using the exigency outer work connected their iPhone 14, the victims were capable to pass to a relay halfway via text, authorities said. 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 and little a paramedic via cable. The antheral and pistillate had 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.

The origin of the clang was unknown.

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