Officers in Coronado working the night shift responded to a 911 call around 8 p.m. on Thursday from a woman in distress who was unable to give an exact location as to where she was.
The call displayed the importance of a technology called RapidDeploy in pinpointing the location of a call when the caller is unable to themselves.
RapidDeploy is a cloud-native platform utilized by emergency communications centers to electronically route third-party emergency data to police officers and other first responders, according to a statement released by the Coronado Police Department.
Powered by Radius Mapping, dispatchers receive precise location and contextual awareness from the call and are then able to directly deliver critical information to the first responder’s devices, all within the mobile app.
The statement described the woman as hysterical and incapable of providing additional details.
The dispatchers were able to direct officers to a vehicle in the Coronado Golf Course parking lot where they found the woman and a 30-year-old male inside the car.
The officers recognized the scene as a drug overdose, with the man barely breathing while his head was tilted back, and they administered three doses of Narcan before the Coronado Fire Department transported him to the hospital.
He regained consciousness and could speak when they arrived at the hospital.
