Aug 18, 2009 - Cell phones problematic for 911

Cell phones problematic for 911
By Becky Vevea, USA TODAY
Darlene Dukes struggled to speak as she called 911 from her cellphone. She could barely tell the operator her address: 602 Wales Drive.The operator, trying to understand Dukes, sent an ambulance to Wells Street in Atlanta— 28 miles from Dukes' apartment in Johns Creek, a suburb north of the city. Paramedics finally reached the stricken woman almost an hour after her call on Aug. 2, 2008. They were too late. Forty minutes after arriving at the hospital, Dukes, 39, the mother of two boys, died of a blood clot in her lungs.  Read the full story at: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/wireless/phones/2009-08-17-cellphones_N.htm