{"id":179397,"date":"2010-01-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/6df515ebd9844b7240b9a7df57d9b46f"},"modified":"2010-01-14T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T14:00:00","slug":"article-woman-rescued-after-haiti-quake-by-sending-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/179397","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: Woman rescued after Haiti quake by sending text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We hear a lot of buzz about how technology is responsible for anti-social behavior or ADD, or that mobile phones cause cancer, etc. With so much negative press out there, it&rsquo;s actually heartening to see cellular tech actually do some good. <\/p>\n<p>Case in point: After the devastating earthquake hit Haiti, a Canadian woman stuck under a pile of rubble hailed her own rescue by texting the Foreign Affairs Department in Ottawa. The agency &#8211; which was roughly 3,000 miles away! &mdash; immediately contacted Canadian diplomats in Haiti, who launched a search for the trapped earthquake victim. Luckily, when they finally managed to locate her, she was still alive. <\/p>\n<p>As for why she chose to text instead of call &mdash; well, that&rsquo;s kind of a mystery. But if I&rsquo;m ever trapped under rubble, with a voice probably silenced by a throat full of dust and dirt, I&rsquo;d definitely want multiple ways of sending for help too. <\/p>\n<p>This makes me wonder about touchscreen-only devices. In a calamity, how rugged are they? (It&rsquo;s not likely she could&rsquo;ve texted on a virtual keyboard with a shattered display, right?) While I&rsquo;m not ready to give up my iPhone yet, having a secondary little clamshell with a hardware QWERTY is starting to sound like a good idea. (LG Lotus Elite, anyone?)<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2010\/01\/14\/2791870.htm\" >ABC<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phonearena.com\/htmls\/Woman-trapped-after-the-Haiti-quake-rescued-after-sending-a-text-message-article-a_8840.html\" >PhoneArena<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5447765\/sending-a-text-message-to-canada-saved-a-woman-in-haiti\" >Gizmodo<br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/uZ7fC1zft0TRzW2knTCIHAC3Mjo\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/uZ7fC1zft0TRzW2knTCIHAC3Mjo\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/uZ7fC1zft0TRzW2knTCIHAC3Mjo\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/uZ7fC1zft0TRzW2knTCIHAC3Mjo\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/WSE3n2F7yS8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hear a lot of buzz about how technology is responsible for anti-social behavior or ADD, or that mobile phones cause cancer, etc. With so much negative press out there, it&rsquo;s actually heartening to see cellular tech actually do some good. Case in point: After the devastating earthquake hit Haiti, a Canadian woman stuck under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}