Overview
- Two girls, ages 13 and 14, called 112 after getting lost after dark in Krefeld’s Kapuzinerberg woodland.
- Weak mobile coverage and no internet blocked the dispatch center’s technical location tools, and the call quality was poor.
- The dispatcher had the caller retrieve GPS coordinates from a compass app and passed them to the on-scene commander.
- Crews located the pair about 30 minutes after the emergency call in the Inrather Berg area, and medics found them uninjured.
- Eighteen personnel from the professional and volunteer fire brigades and the municipal rescue service concluded the operation in roughly an hour.