In a report published on Wednesday, first responders in Los Angeles County praised Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) smartphone’s Emergency SOS via satellite feature as a crucial tool, crediting it with helping “over a dozen” rescues drastically improving emergency response time.
What Happened: Officials from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department hailed the iPhone’s Emergency SOS via satellite feature as a pivotal game-changer in emergencies, as per the report from Backpacker.
Assistant director Mike Leum spoke about the feature’s immediate impact, saying, “We’ve experienced multiple benefits. Number one is the immediate notification that we get. People have an hour to get advanced life support to increase their survivability. In a couple of these incidents, people’s lives were one ...