If you bought an iPhone 14, you might not have been paying much attention to the novelty of satellite emergency calling. You probably live in a city if you pay attention to the statistics, and you’re not going to be at risk unless you play sports in the open field.
But there are people who, since last week, already appreciate this function much more. Especially in Alaska, where the authorities were able saving a person who was crossing the frozen wastelands of Alaska in the middle of the night.
A call that may have avoided a far greater scare
State authorities themselves released the rescue, describing how a grown man used the emergency satellite call as he made the journey from Noorvik to Kotzebue at two in the morning. These are two towns with very few inhabitants in a very remote area.
The statement does not specify why the man resorted to the call (at the time he may have run out of gas by mistake or got lost through negligence), but they confirm that thanks to the satellite call service of the iPhone 14 emergency services they easily located the man to transfer him to Kotzebue. He and the rescue workers were found safe and sound. Local media reflected the news saying the rescue was completed by 6am and the man was wearing the proper gear to withstand the weather conditions.
Coverage for that area in Alaska must be next to zero, so without the satellite call, that person might have been out one or more nights. And that, in Alaska, is no joke. In Cupertino, they already have more reasons to be satisfied with their work.
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