B.C. search and rescue warns nature goers about relying on tech in the wilderness
A series of false emergency calls from Apple products have been plaguing the province lately and forcing emergency crews to help people that aren’t in any danger.
These devices use internal sensors to detect severe force, which they interpret as a crash and respond to by displaying an alert alongside an alarm. If the user fails to respond to the alarm within 20 seconds, the device will then make a call to emergency services.In many of the instances where these calls have been made despite the user not being involved in an incident, the person was skiing, snowboarding, or snowmobiling.
Of the 38 rescue calls that Ridge Meadows Search and Rescue has responded to this year, Smith said none of them have come as a result of this issue with Apple’s crash detection. However, he still warned that this is only one way that search and rescue teams receive false calls.
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