Girl, 6, May Have Saved Mom With 911 Call
HEMET, Calif. (AP) - A 6-year-old Southern California girl may have given her mother something extra-special this Mother's Day weekend - her life.
The Riverside Press-Enterprise says the Hemet girl call 911 Saturday morning to say her mother wasn't responding.
Fire Capt. Bill Herder says the woman is diabetic had become unconscious because of a dangerously low blood sugar level.
Such events can be fatal unless treated.
Only the woman's daughter was home. Herder says the girl remained calm and stayed on the line with a dispatcher until paramedics arrived.
The mother was treated at a hospital and released.
Herder says the girl "did the right thing and was very brave."
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