Girls lost in drain rescued due to Facebook status update

When two girls, aged 10 and 12, were lost in a storm drain in South Australia last night, most people would have expected them to have called the emergency services immediately, seeing as they had their mobile phones with them. However, that was not the case with the two lost girls. Instead of ringing the emergency services, the two girls decided to make a Facebook status update stating that they were lost, which, luckily for them, caught the attention of one of their male friends who called for help.

The two girls were eventually rescued from the storm drain in Hackham, in the south of Adelaide, by the fire service, according to ABC news (via TechRadar). The firemen used a ladder to get the young urban explorers back to safety. Fireman Glenn Benham said "it is a worry for us because it causes a delay on us being able to rescue the girls."

"If they were able to access Facebook from their mobile phones, they could have called 000, so the point being they could have called us directly and we could have got there quicker than relying on someone being online and replying to them and eventually having to call us via 000 anyway."

While the girls were lucky that there was someone online at the time the girls made their Facebook status update, the South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service have expressed concern that the girls decided to update their Facebook page rather than calling 000, the number for the Australian emergency services. Also, some were concerned that the 10 and 12 year old girls were exploring the drains at all, given the risk of drowning in the event of flash floods.

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I have seen social sites killing people, ex " orkut ". While this one saves some one.

 

Wow...what an amazing story

Facebook has more uses than we could have ever imagined I guess

Thanks for the share

 

Lol .. Nice story ...
They both must be feeling bored their so that is why they preferred using a social network

 

I hope they learned their leason about exploring drains, and I especially hope they learn't they need to call emergency services.
Thanks for sharing

 

Wow nice story...

 

Lol there were chances of getting drained , If everyone was slept and no one was at fb.

 

Seriously? people get dumber every day it seems...

 

::Agreed:: Kind of makes me wonder how lost they really were. I think it was BS, anyone that scared would have also at least called something else. I mean if they tried to call their parents first and no one answered would they just sit there or call the next number of their contact list. I think they wanted attention or are in dire need of a future darwin award.

 

Lol... people are becoming too dependent on Facebook and other such sites. It is good that they were safe in the end.

 

the power of social network...although it's I don't consider it somehow smart (see the rescuer's point of view?) at least they are safe now

 

its much better if they call...i wonder whats with the people nowadays...>.>

 

Cool story...
Thanks for sharing.

 

Seriously Lol! Social sites are totally taking over peoples lifes!! i know of people that sit on there day in day out! its just not healthy!!

B.

 

I still can't understand why didn't they just call for help~~~

Panic attack and Facebook come to mind?

 

social snobbery

 

te instead

 

Why not just use common sense and call for help? hmm..

 

This is really awful story. What if no one was online when they updated their profile. This tells the bad impact of technology. Instead of calling the fire department, they updated their facebook !!!

 

^ yea agreed, stupid girls imo #1 for getting caught in a drain and #2 instead of calling 911 they report the accident on they facebook accounts... wowwwwwsmh