Baltimore Shomrim Saved Trapped Woman And Kids – In San Francisco

Baltimore Shomrim received a hotline call just after midnight Tuesday from a woman who was trapped with her children in a locked in a storage rental facility in San Francisco. The email reportedly sent by Shomrim said the woman was "hysterical" and crying, and noted that the woman’s phone died during the call.

 Updated at 5:02 pm CST

Baltimore Shomrim Saved Trapped Woman And Kids – In San Francisco
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com

In an e-mail to supporters reportedly sent early Tuesday, Baltimore’s Shomrim said it helped rescue a woman and her children who were trapped in a locked storage locker – in San Francisco.

And as bizarre as the story may seem, it's true.

The Baltimore Sun and the North Baltimore Patch both reported that Baltimore Shomrim claimed to have received a hotline call just after midnight Tuesday from a woman who was trapped with her children in a locked in a storage rental facility in San Francisco. The email reportedly sent by Shomrim said the woman was "hysterical" and crying, and noted that the woman’s phone died during the call.

However, Shomrim says its dispatcher had enough information to know that the woman and her children were at a storage facility in San Francisco that was closed for the day.

Shomrim contacted San Francisco police, who called back later to say they had located the woman and children and freed them.

"We have no idea how the woman had Shomrim's hotline number, but it certainly worked out for the best," the Shomrim email reportedly said, emphasizing that the woman’s call for help was “the single most exceptional call in the last 7,300 that Shomrim has fielded since our founding."

Attempts by the Baltimore Sun and Baltimore Patch to confirm the story with San Francisco Police were not successful, allegedly due to the lack of certain details needed to track the incident.

San Francisco police had not yet responded to an email from FailedMessiah.com seeking to confirm the story at the time of this post.

Update 5:02 pm CST – I received a call from the San Francisco Police Department. They confirmed the story and were able to add a facinating bit of information.

The trapped woman speaks Spanish. Her English is limited. Police think that in her panic she mis-dialed one or two digits – the area code for much of San Francisco is 415, for much of Baltimore, including Shomrim's hotline, it is 410.

However it happened, she got Shomrim on the line and by all accounts its dispatcher did an excellent job of finding out what city the woman was in and getting her help.

Comments

[Rueven Aharon]

Ouch! Are they all right?

[cheers]

great job... what a kiddush hashem!

[Sugarplum]

Can't wait till they get a shreiking call from Webermam with the sounds of "squeal like a pig!" in the background...

[Steven]

She couldn't remember 911 but remembered Shomrim in another state?

[Rueven Aharon]

Kiddush hashem and a great mitzvah, if true.

[zibble]

Kiddush hashem? You obviously don't even know what the meaning of the word is. I assume the story is true, but it is nothing more than any rescue organization would do.

[Jonathan]

Vosizneias:
“Officers responded and found a female with her children locked in her storage unit at Extra Space Storage at 2501 Cesar Chavez Street at 9:33 PM San Francisco time,” reported Officer Albie Esparza, a spokesman for the San Francisco Police Department. “The code for her unit, which was located on the bottom floor of the facility, was not working and our officers were able to free her and her children at 9:40 PM.”

San Francisco police have not released any details regarding the woman’s identity at this time.

The question of how the call came to Shomrim, almost 2,500 miles away, remains a mystery to both the Baltimore citizen’s patrol and the San Francisco police.

“It could be that she dialed the number wrong,” conjectured Schleifer. Baltimore’s area code is 410, while the San Francisco area code is 415.

According to Schleifer, the Baltimore citizen’s patrol frequently takes calls from people outside the Maryland area.

“We don’t care who the person is or where they are calling from,” reported Schleifer. “We get calls from out of town all the time and we assist. Of the 7300 calls we have gotten, this one was pretty unique, but then again, a lot of them are.”

“We have no idea how she got the number of the patrol in Baltimore but it is clearly a good number to have,” added Officer Esparza. “People keep their cell phone numbers when they move so you never know where a call is coming from no matter what the area code.”