Boy honored for 911 call.On October 16, eight-year-old Deven Billings was honored at an assembly at Joppa-towne Elementary School elementary school: see school. in Joppa, Maryland, for helping to save his aunt's life. On the morning of September 22, shortly before 6 a.m., Deven found his aunt, who has diabetes, in a non-responsive state. "My aunt just kept moaning. I tried to wake her up, but it wouldn't work. So I just called 911," Deven told WJZ WJZ Wetgeving en Juridische Zaken (Dutch: legislative and judicial matters) CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. t3 News in Baltimore. Deven remained on the line with the emergency dispatcher Software that determines what pending tasks should be done next and assigns the available resources to accomplish it. It may execute other programs or generate a list for human operators to follow. See scheduler. , Lindsay Edwards, for seven minutes. "He knew there was something wrong. He helped out a lot. I stayed on the line until the ambulance got to her. And he was very, very calm," said Edwards. Now recovered from her episode, Deven's aunt, Dolores Dolores (or Delores) was a common given name (until the 1960s in the USA); it is cognate with the English word "dolorous" (meaning sorrowful) and equivalent in meaning. Goins, was happy to report: 'Tm very proud of him." For remaining calm and acting decisively in an emergency, Deven received the Harford County Gold 911 Award at the school assembly, along with commendations from Harford County. |
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