A lot has been made of our current generation and the fact that many of us cannot survive without a smartphone. You can see it anywhere you go, people who cannot put their phones down, perhaps in fear that they will miss something in their virtual life as real life passes by around them. While that doesn’t have consequences for us on a daily basis, one woman in Illinois has paid the ultimate price for that link to her phone after she tried to save her smartphone from a burning home.
Wendy Rybolt of Bartonville, Illinois, actually escaped with her daughter from her burning home initially, however, it was at this point that Wendy decided to re-enter the home to retrieve her phone. Police and firefighters who arrived on the scene tried to reach her in time, but it is believed the smoke overcame her. As a grim reminder to us all, Chief Brian Fengel of the Bartonville Police Department said:
“Material things can be replaced. You never want to go back in to retrieve anything. In this, there was heavy smoke. Carbon monoxide will get you, and you may not even know it.”
Source:Â CINewsNow.com via Phone Arena
