When Solano County (N. Calif.) sheriff’s dispatchers received a 911 call from a young boy reporting his father had fallen while hiking, the call didn’t last long enough to determine an accurate location. But trainee Breanna Martinez then came up with an idea—she searched on the father’s name in Google, came up with a LinkedIn page, which led to a Facebook page and an important clue. The most recent entry said that Ryan Pritchard and his son were hiking a specific trail near Lake Berryessa, 30 miles from the cellular tower that received the 911 call. Martinez and dispatchers Sheri Speakman and Melissa Kunz requested a CHP helicopter into the area, and the air crew soon spotted the son. A medic was lowered into the area, where Pritchard had fallen 150 feet off a cliff and into a tree. He was airlifted to a hospital and will survive.
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