'She's not waking up:' Boy saves mom using Siri to call ambulance

A little voice came on the phone and introduced himself as Roman.
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Colin Daileda
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'She's not waking up:' Boy saves mom using Siri to call ambulance
The boy's call got emergency responders to his mom in 13 minutes. Credit: Dan Peled/Epa/REX/Shutterstock

A little voice came on the phone and introduced himself as Roman.

The four-year-old boy had touched his mom's thumb to her phone and used Siri to call for an ambulance. His mom, he said, was "closing her eyes."

"Can you do me a favor?," the emergency responder on the call asks Roman. "Can you go and get mummy?"

"We can't," Roman says. "She's dead."

Roman told the responder his mom was "not breathing." He gives his address to the woman on the other end of the phone, then shakes his mom, as requested.

"She's not waking up," Roman says.

An ambulance got to the boy's London home in 13 minutes. Responders barged in and administered first aid. She woke up, and they took her to the hospital.

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Colin is Mashable's US & World Reporter. He previously interned at Foreign Policy magazine and The American Prospect. Colin is a graduate from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. When he's not at Mashable, you can most likely find him eating or playing some kind of sport.

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