By Bill Carey
EMS1
CLEVELAND — A woman called 911 to request a Cleveland ambulance so she could charge her phone, according to 911 audio recently obtained by FOX 8. The unusual request followed recent severe weather and power outages.
During the call with dispatchers in early August, the woman mentioned that she did have medical issues but she also needed to charge her phone. An ambulance arrived within 3 minutes, FOX8 reported.
In the recording, the dispatcher asks, “Why do you need to go to the hospital, Ma’am?”
The woman replies, “Because the police didn’t come to get me...let me charge my phone. Take me back home. I need to charge my phone.”
The dispatcher asks, “You want an ambulance to go to the hospital just to charge your phone?” and the woman responds, “To charge the phone, yes.”
The EMS crew spent nearly an hour at the scene and the woman refused transport to the hospital.
San Marcos EMS, the new department staffed largely by familiar paramedics and EMTs, joins San Marcos police and fire as the city’s third emergency service
October 30, 2026 08:53 AM
·
The boy held onto a rope for about 25 minutes while standing knee-deep in sewage after falling through a foot-wide vent pipe opening at Hickman Sanitation Company in West Chester
October 29, 2026 07:36 AM
A rail control center mistakenly ordered one high-speed train to resume movement while others were stalled, sending it slamming into a stationary train at up to 200 km/h, marking Spain’s second major rail disaster this year
October 29, 2026 07:35 AM
The former Trauma Star captain convicted of covering up the chief flight nurse’s theft of fentanyl and other painkillers faces up to 68 years in prison, as Monroe County officials warn a light sentence would discourage future whistleblowers
October 29, 2026 07:45 AM
