The idea is to turn to Siri for help came up with a 14-year-old Tyler Frank after she failed to call 911. To ask for help in Facebook and Instagram, also without success. The clock was ticking: the water rose higher and higher, and fever and pain, which is exacerbated due to chronic diseases, girls increased.
«I thought, Siri is smart enough! You need to ask her,» says Tyler.
And indeed, Siri was smart enough to understand. With a single request personal assistant Apple — «Siri, call the Coast guard» Tyler rescued his family from captivity floods.
And it happened just in time. Tyler suffers from a genetic disease — sickle-cell anemia. When did hurricane Harvey, the girl just experienced a worsening of the disease: red blood cells have abnormal crystalline structure of the scored blood vessels, not allowing oxygen to reach parts of her body. This girl had a terrible pain.
When Tyler, her mother and her three brothers woke up early in the morning of 27 August, found that the water reaches the chest of Tyler. Soon the water rose to the level of the top girls.
Older brother Tyler, Joseph, raised it to the roof. And the middle brother, Breiland, raised the youngest child of the family — 8 summer Wakarusa.
The only time that Tyler defended from the cold was a towel, and already soaked to the bone.
At this point, the girl came up with, you can contact the coast guard with the help of Siri.
She told the man who picked up the phone on the family’s location and explained that she is sick and needs help.
The next day flew in a helicopter of the coast guard.
One of the rescuers descended from a helicopter and asked if sick people in the house. By this time the temperature at the Tyler rose to 103 degrees.
«I told him that my child has sickle cell disease and is in urgent need of help,» says the mother of Tyler, Frank.
But the rescuer said that deals only with elderly people, boarded the helicopter and they flew away.
Later in the office of the coast guard explained that the rescuers are faced with an incredible number of calls and they had to make decisions based on the urgency of the situation ( e.g., situations directly life-threatening).
But Tyler, a straight-a student at Forest Brook High School, did not give up. She again contacted the coast guard with the help of Siri.
Again the next morning the helicopter arrived, which this time took her to a safe place.
The girl was taken to Memorial Hermann hospital, and then flown to Tea Children’s Hospital, where she watched from childhood.
But this mishap girls not over.
On Friday, Tyler was discharged from the hospital, and she returned to the family. But the house was badly damaged and now she, her mother and four brothers (15-year-old Bravin was not at home when the flood started) have to stay in the same room at the Super 8.
«Our car is gone, our house was gone, everything,» says Frank. «We have to start all over again.»
According to the materials of Pix11.
