iPhone emergency feature helps rescue 2 after canyon plunge in California - CBS News

Apple's Emergency SOS diagnostic whitethorn person saved 2 stranded radical this week aft their car veered disconnected the roadworthy portion traveling done the Angeles National Forest, officials said.

The car mishap astatine astir 1:55 p.m. section clip connected Tuesday sent the conveyance implicit the broadside of a upland and near some the operator and rider trapped successful an isolated canyon, wherever neither had compartment telephone service, according to the Montrose Search & Rescue Team. Crews from that team, arsenic good arsenic the Los Angeles County Fire Department and Special Enforcement Bureau, were yet notified by the exigency outer work installed connected an iPhone 14 belonging to 1 of the victims. 

The Montrose Search & Rescue Team recounted the incidental successful a Twitter thread soon aft it occurred, and shared a video that showed a sheriff's bureau chopper hovering implicit the canyon portion airlifting some radical to safety.

"This day astatine astir 1:55 PM, @CVLASD received a telephone from the Apple exigency outer service. The informant and different unfortunate had been progressive successful a azygous conveyance mishap connected Angeles Forest Hwy adjacent mile marker 18.87, Angeles Forest," the Montrose Search & Rescue Team wrote on Twitter. 

"Their conveyance had gone disconnected the broadside of the mountain, astir 300'. They were successful a distant canyon with nary cellular telephone service. The victims were capable to extricate themselves from the car.

"Using the exigency outer work connected their iPhone 14, they were capable to pass to a relay via text," the thread continued. "The halfway contacted our presumption who dispatched us, @LACOFD, patrol units, and @SEBLASD Air Rescue 5. The telephone halfway gave america an close latitude and longitude for the victims."

Deputies, Fire Notified of Vehicle Over the Side Via iPhone Emergency Satellite Service

This day astatine astir 1:55 PM, @CVLASD received a telephone from the Apple exigency outer service. The informant and different unfortunate had been progressive successful a azygous conveyance mishap pic.twitter.com/tFWGMU5h3V

— Montrose Search & Rescue Team (Ca.) (@MontroseSAR) December 14, 2022

The aerial rescue squad dispatched arsenic portion of the effect was capable to find the stranded radical arsenic it flew overhead, and brought a paramedic to code what Montrose Search & Rescue called mild to mean injuries successful some victims. The 2 radical rescued — a antheral and pistillate successful their 20s, according to officials — were not identified by sanction successful the societal media thread, which added that some were hoisted from the canyon into the chopper and transported to a section hospital.

Apple's upgraded Emergency SOS software, installed connected its caller iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro models, functions successful the aforesaid mode arsenic its accepted SOS diagnostic does with cellular oregon Wi-Fi service, erstwhile a mobile instrumentality is retired of range. It uses a outer transportation to substance exigency services "under exceptional circumstances erstwhile nary different means of reaching exigency services are available," Apple says. The relation is escaped for 2 years with the acquisition of an iPhone 14.

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