{"id":3055,"date":"2025-09-04T15:21:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=3055"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:21:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:21:28","slug":"boy-calls-911-to-ask-for-help-with-math-cops-soon-realize-he-needs-real-help-story-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=3055","title":{"rendered":"Boy Calls 911 to Ask For Help with Math, Cops Soon Realize He Needs Real Help \u2013 Story of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ryan Crosby, 8, was struggling with his math homework when he decided to call 911 for help. At first, the dispatcher thought it was a prank \u2014 until Ryan revealed he was home alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alarmed, officers rushed to his house and learned his mom, Matilda, hadn\u2019t been home since morning. They tried calling her but couldn\u2019t reach her, so they tracked her phone to the outskirts of town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the help of a K9 unit, they found Matilda unconscious in her car. She had fainted from heat while driving and had been there all day with a dead phone battery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paramedics rushed her to the hospital, and she later recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Ryan saw his mom again, he hugged her tightly as she told him, \u201cYou saved my life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The incident proved how important it is to teach kids when and how to call 911 \u2014 because even a call made for the wrong reason can end up saving someone\u2019s life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Crosby, 8, was struggling with his math homework when he decided to call 911 for help. At first, the dispatcher thought it was a prank \u2014&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":724,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3057,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions\/3057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}