It takes a minute, once. You are not promising to be a hero — only to be findable if you are the closest person.
The worst experience a human can have. Fourteen minutes for ambos to arrive. Untrained in CPR. Home. Nobody could hear us.
Anybody would have sprinted to help. There would be a nurse within 500 metres, a neighbour trained in St Johns. Every person in Australia would have helped me in that moment if they were alerted.
Having been through this, the thought that it could still happen to somebody, and that nothing is being done, is too much for me to bear.
— C. Tia Astor
So that when someone nearby holds the button, there is a name to send it to.
That's the whole ask. We'll be in touch when there's something real to join.
The Emergency Button is being built and is not finished. This page is a register of people who have already said yes, so that the day it works there is somebody to alert. Signing up does not protect you and does not replace calling 000. If someone is in danger right now, call 000.