6-Year-Old Hailed After Calling 911 For Mom

Boy Guides Medics After Mom Passes Out
April 25, 2008

COLUMBUS, Ind. -- The family of a Columbus kindergarten student is thankful he paid attention to lessons about whom to call in an emergency.

Jared Lebrun, 6, recently was alone with his pregnant mother at home when she passed out because of pregnancy complications, reported WRTV in Indianapolis.

"She fell down. She fell asleep for a little while," Jared recalled on Thursday.

Jared called 911 on a cell phone and told a dispatcher that something was wrong with his mother. The dispatcher couldn't trace the call, so he asked Jared for the address. Jared wasn't sure he knew it, but he knew how to get it.

"He actually stepped out to the front of his house to make sure he knew the address and he read the address to the dispatcher," said Ed Reuter, of the Bartholomew County emergency operations center.

Two 911 dispatchers kept Jared on the line.  

"He knew where he lived, the street and his address. We had problems with understanding the street name from him, but he knew what [subdivision] he lived in," dispatcher Scott Crase said.

Medics arrived and helped Jared's mother, April, who is now doing fine. Emergency workers hailed Jared as a hero.

Jared recalled that while he still was on the phone with the dispatchers, his father -- who was out of town -- called on another phone. Jared had a phone on each ear.

"I told my dad to hold on because I was talking to the ambulance," Jared recalled.