VIDEO: Firefighters in San Francisco are crediting mobile technology for a rescue. It's a piece of technology that most people walk around with every day, and now first responders are using it to lead them to people who need help.
Fort Funston in San Francisco is a beautiful place to hike, but after dark, it can get disorienting. That's apparently what happened to a woman Wednesday night. San Francisco fire crews said the woman called a non-emergency number saying she was lost. Dispatchers were able to use a system called Rapid SOS, which pinged her phone, and led rescuers right to her location.
She was found cold, but otherwise OK.
Battalion Chief Glenn Kircher says it appears everything worked exactly the way it should have.
"This is where technology works in our favor, and it worked perfectly," said Kircher.