The Capital Times
MADISON, Wis. — Reverse 911 technology helped searchers find an 83-year-old woman suffering from Alzheimer’s disease who walked away from a care facility on the east side Sunday night, Madison police reported.
The unidentified woman was found in a drainage ravine near Swanton Road and Hamlet Place about 6:30 p.m., by a resident who had gotten a reverse 911 call from the county’s 911 center about 20 minutes earlier.
The calls went out shortly after 6 p.m. to alert people living in the area to keep on the lookout for the woman.
Almost 700 phone calls went out to homes within a half-mile of the care facility on Milo Court.
The resident who found the woman had received a reverse 911 call and went outside to look around, finding her in the drainage ravine.
The patient had been missing for several hours, so an ambulance was dispatched as a precaution, taking the woman to a medical facility for treatment.
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