Bravery award for 999 rescue girl
Published: October 20, 2005
A five-year-old girl has been given a bravery award by the ambulance service for coming to the rescue of her mother when she collapsed at home.
Beatrice Coles, from Bridgnorth, Shropshire, dialled 999 and pulled a door which was not opening properly to let the crew inside.
She also called her great grandmother from her home in The Hobbins.
Her mother, Bridget, who was pregnant at the time of the incident last August, said the award was a surprise.
‘Really good’
“I had been suffering from low pressure and having little fainting fits. At this particular time I had blacked out completely,” she said.
Paul Ducommun, from the ambulance service, said: “She gave me the address straight away and then repeated the telephone number a couple of times to me as well and said her mum had collapsed.
“She said ‘I can’t unlock the door because the door is a bit stuck’.
“So I said ‘we’ll get the ambulance crew to push it while you’re pulling it’.
“I asked her if she’d got any other telephone numbers of her dad and she gave me all these different numbers.
“She was brilliant - really good.”
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