Crash survivor recounts how iPhone SOS feature led to helicopter rescue in remote area of Angeles National Forest: 'Immediately the phone said 'crash detected, emergency services have been contacted.''
A woman who survived a car crash in the Angeles National Forest recounted how an iPhone 14 emergency SOS feature helpedShortly before, 2 p.m. Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Crescenta Valley station received a notification from an iPhone 14 via satellite service, the agency said. The victims, Cloe Fields and her boyfriend, had been involved in a single-vehicle crash near mile marker 18.
"They were in a remote canyon with no cellular phone service" and were able to extricate themselves from the vehicle, the Search and Rescue Team said in a statement. The center contacted the station, which dispatched the Search and Rescue Team, L.A. County firefighters, sheriff's patrol units and a helicopter.
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