Any cell phone can call emergency numbers if locked. It was made to call 911 under the situation where the phone could not be unlocked and I assume ICE numbers as well.
This is perhaps not directly relevant to the OP, but might help somebody in a similar situation some day. …
In my state, FL, the state DMV website has a service where you can voluntarily submit 2 or 3 different names and phone numbers as your emergency contacts who will then be associated to your driver’s license info. The police and EMS services have access to that database. So if I’m ever found incapacitated, and if the responders can figure out who I am or find my driver’s license, they can consult that database and learn how to contact my wife and others.
Seems like a pretty smart service for the state to have set up. I also have wife & appropriate others as designated emergency contacts in my phone.
We all might want to check whether our home state / province has a similar service.
So far as I can determine, California DMV does not have this. I’ve made sure both my phone and my husband’s are set with appropriate emergency contactss.
So smart that the one my city uses is called Smart911.
I put in all of my information, and then first responders will know my emergency contact phone numbers, and if there are any pets in my house to rescue from the fire.
I figure it’s all information the government has anyway, but by putting it all in one spot, (supposedly) it shows up on the screen of the 911 dispatcher when I call. That is definitely a time I want the government to know where I live, etc.
I’m not sure but I think anyone can do Smart911:
It seems it is not available everywhere but you can check at the bottom of that webpage.
Here’s the direct link for availability:
https://www.smart911.com/smart911/isSmart911InMyAreaForm.action
(I’m apparently dumb, as I couldn’t find it on the main page and had to Google.)
Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, Smart911 isn’t available here 
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I tried to add my daughters to the emergency number list on my (Android) phone, but they didn’t show up in the list of contacts I could add 
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I’m a little leery about entering personal information to smart911.com. I mean, the concept is a good one but will that information be valuable to first responders when or if it’s needed? Will first responders go to smart 911 in an emergency?
I may have mentioned this upthread, I don’t remember, but I’ve started wearing my old style dog tags in case my ID isn’t available.
I had a set of military-style dogtags made that include my name, driver’s license number, wife’s name and her contact number. I wear them when I’m at the beach or biking and otherwise unidentifiable.
If they are to be believed Smart911 says the information you enter is only ever shared with 911 or other emergency agencies if you so choose and then only if you place a call to 911 from a phone in their database. Local 911 must participate in the program and the information is only displayed if you make a call from a phone you have put into the Smart911 database. So, if you used my phone to make a 911 call they would see my info.
I am not sure but it seems the 911 operator will automatically see the info from Smart911 if they receive a call from your phone (and they participate in the program).
Great idea!
Is it possible that you were just a little tiny bit shaken up by what had happened to your wife and was just a teeny bit distracted?
I’m just asking because when hubs called me at work from the hospital, I know I clocked out, my boss mentioned it a few days later. I know I put gas in my car and I know I drove over an hour to get there. The only reason I know these things is because they happened, not because I can remember a single second between getting the call and seeing him in the hospital bed.
Possibly, but I doubt it because she’d had low blood sugar moments before, so I was familiar and comfortable with the situation. I knew she wasn’t hurt. The police told me that on the phone call.
But the first time I witnessed it, she stumbled and fainted in front of me. I called 9-1-1 and, when the paramedics came, I lost it. I didn’t know what was happening and I cried.
But now (and then) I’m familiar with it.
There are several public information databases police departments can subscribe to like TLO. Those databases will list close relatives and associates. They are not 100% accurate when it comes to finding relatives but pretty good when it you are talking about someone who lives in the same residence. They did not access her phone.
Since it happened so close to home they might simply have looked up the address in their own system and found you in an old report.
Okay that makes sense and it’s what I guessed. Thanks for that info.