Earthquake Survivor Calls iPhone a Life Saver

[onehandle]

Source: NBC

Usually, when someone says their iPhone is a life saver, they are talking about the phone helping them find a good takeout spot or an emergency bathroom. When Dan Woolley says it, he really means it. He used a medical app saved on his phone to treat a leg injury after the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince collapsed around him.

Woolley, who is from Colorado Springs, is one of the Americans who survived the massive earthquake that hit Haiti last week, and he did it with an iPhone application. Woolley is now recovering at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, but it was his fast actions with the app that may have saved his life.

Woolley used the light from his iPhone to show him his injuries and diagnosed it properly as a broken foot. Then, he used the instructions from the app to treat the excessive bleeding from cuts on his legs and the back of his head.

Woolley used his shirt to tie off the three-inch gash that was opened on his leg and a sock to bandage the back of his head. He said he also looked up ways to stop from going into shock.

Read more: http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Earthquake-Survivor-Says-iPhone-a-Life-Saver--82081602.html

[Robb]

1. OK, fine, damn it all.

There IS an app for everything. You win. Now shut up about it. :D

[Cleita]

2. Not always. When we had a 6+ quake here in 2003 all the

cell phone towers were down for about twenty four hours but the land lines were working. Nevertheless, I'm glad it worked for Wooley.

[CLANG]

5. You don't need to have a cell connection to use most apps

[progressoid]

3. God sent him those apps.

:eyes:

[fujiyama]

8. It sounded so nutty

The guy is in one of the poorest countries in the world and God speaks to him somehow? I guess God just hates all those kids that are orphans now! Or the parents that have no kids or the thousands of others that lost families...

He should be thanking Steve Jobs instead of God!

[progressoid]

9. Well...

Some people think Steve Jobs is God.

[onehandle]

10. He was in Haiti filming a documentary on efforts to help the nation's poverty-stricken children.

So maybe give the guy a break.

[Javaman]

4. Dying? Trapped under tons of rubble? There's an app for that too! nt

[uberblonde]

6. You know what I can't believe?

That the AT&T network was actually working, since even on a good day, it's slow as sludge.

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. You didn't read the article

He used the apps on first aid and the iPhone as a flashlight to find his way out of the rubble then was found later by rescue teams

But I agree with ATT's shitting service.

[Lorien]

11. You don't need a connection to use many of the apps

but yeah, AT&T is crap.