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Tyler Swass doesn't remember his mother or anyone else teaching him about 911.
So when his mother had a seizure on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the 5-year-old Pennsylvania boy acted more or less on instinct.
"It was just in my head," he tells the NBC affiliate in Philadelphia. "It just came to me."
Asked where he learned about 911, Tyler replied, "I didn't learn it from anyone. I just got it from myself."
Lucky thing, too.
Tyler was at home with his mother, Amanda, and baby sister in Forks Township (about an hour and a half east of New York City) when Amanda started having a seizure. She has occasional seizures, using a stimulator in her chest to help break the episodes.
"She was, like, shaking, and then she just laid on the ground because she was staying on the ground, and then I got the phone and then called 911," the boy tells NBC.
The conversation was a little annoying, he adds.
"They asked me if she can talk to them, but I telled them that she couldn't because she had a seizure -- duh!" he tells the TV station. "I had to keep saying that every time, but they still didn't listen. But then they stopped talking about it."
Tyler didn't know the family's address, just the street name. Fortunately, NBC reports, family friend and volunteer firefighter Matt Mowery heard the call on the scanner.
"When I got there, I walked in the door and go, 'T-Man, what did you do?' and he looks at me and he goes 'I called 911. My mom needed it,'" Mowery tells NBC.
Amanda woke up in the hospital, where she learned how Tyler came to her rescue.
"I am so proud of him, I started to cry," she tells NBC.
Related: Helping a Person During a Seizure
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2-02-2010 @ 9:14PM
Lotte said...MANY 911 operators (and whatever system they work for) need more and better training! I have heard/seen of too many instances where they persist in asking a question even after being answered...just not an answer THEY want...I think some simply do not bother to THINK! I have several family members who are in various rescue groups (fire, paramedic, etc.) and they feel the same way.
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2-02-2010 @ 9:58PM
Bunny Lee said...Good for this young man! I love his "duh" comment. Some little kids are much wiser than some adults. I tried to teach my 3 and 5 year old grandsons their address and phone numbers, but they wanted to know "why do I need to know that? Momma knows where I live." They thought their street was a road that is almost 3 miles from their house! Now, I have a story I can tell them that might make them listen. Thanks for printing this story.
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2-03-2010 @ 1:07AM
twopottersinlove said...Cute kid.
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2-03-2010 @ 1:35AM
MELODYMUSIC1118 said...LMAO! What if it had happened on Christmas? Would Menda be upset if they just said it happened on December 25th? Menda made it a racial thing not the writer. If Menda didn't already have an issue with race they wouldn't have even noticed it.
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2-03-2010 @ 1:59AM
unique2010 said...I'M WITH YOU MELODYMUSIC1118
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2-03-2010 @ 2:29AM
joe t said...hmmm, Menda... I didm't notice that. Why would you? [something else going on here?]
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2-03-2010 @ 9:58AM
thegreatcj666 said...the comment had to do with the fact that it was Martin Luther King day, and in all honesty it would be alot quicker to write the date, they went out of there way to post Martin Luther King that way no one would yell at them. Although menda did go a little over bored with the profanity. But that is how the world really is for you.
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