Toddler Saves Mum’s Life After Calling Triple Zero

A three-year-old girl has saved the life of her mum after calling triple zero.

A toddler is the newest hero after she called triple-0 when her mother fell unconscious at their home in Perth.

Mum Katelyn Drozd said that she just fed her one-year-old son breakfast when she miscalculated her step and lost her footing as she got her son out of his high chair. “Normally when you do that you put out your hands to stop your fall but I didn’t want to squash him so I kind of pushed him aside, and in doing so threw myself in the direction of the coffee table and knocked myself out on the corner of it,” she said.

While she lay unconscious her three-year-old daughter, Darcy-Pippa, who is not very accurate with dialling on a touch screen, but was taught about two speed-dial numbers Ms Drozd coded in her phone. “We had told her we had saved 000 under 2 for emergencies and number 1 was Dad. So she picked up my phone and she rang my partner and said mummy has fallen and she is sleeping. He asked her if mummy was breathing and she checked me and told him yes but she couldn’t wake me. Daddy told her he was coming home and to keep Bugger that’s her affectionate name for her brother Brodie-Robert near Mummy,” she said.

However, little Darcy did not stop there. She then pressed 2 and called triple zero. When she heard a woman on the other end say “Police, Fire, Emergency,” Darcy repeated “Fire.” Yet, when she was patched through to a fire sergeant, they couldn’t get much information from her.

Ms Drozd was later told that Darcy told the triple zero operator that she was sleeping and hurt then Darcy told them her name and her age and that her little brother was one year old then she passed the phone to him and he gurgled at them then she cut them off to pick up a call from Ms Drozd’s husband.

After emergency services went through more effort to track the phone’s sim card which was registered to Ms Drozd’s previous address and finally tracing the correct one through an old police report Ms Drozd had made after a break-in, emergency services arrived at the house.

Darcy calmy unlocked the door and stood true to her father’s instructions to keep her little brother close to his mum, even getting a packet of ham from the fridge to bribe him into staying put.

Ms Drozd said she woke up to her partner, paramedics and fire truck all at their house, including some bits of ham all over her.

She was immediately checked and though her head was swollen and sore, she did not have to go to hospital.

Emergency services will visit the family again to nominate Darcy-Pippa for a bravery award. Ms Drozd said she is proud of her daughter.

“I am actually quite shocked. She is not a baby, but she’s still my baby and she acted beyond her years I am so very proud of her.

“I’m grateful to emergency services as well. Children can be frustrating but the people on the other end of the phone showed so much patience. They deserve a medal themselves,” she said.

Source: Watoday.com.au