West Valley toddler makes 200 911 calls

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) -Salt Lake Valley dispatchers warn parents that children can make 911 calls from cell phones no longer in service. They received more than two-hundred calls from a toddler on a cell phone in ten days.

Geana Randall from VECC says it took a huge amount of manpower to track the child down. West Valley Police eventually created a grid and went door to door. Randall says unlike other phones, it’s impossible to know exactly where out of service emergency calls originate. "The phone number that comes across isn't a number that we can contact back. It shows and area code of 911, so we know it's a disconnected cell phone and we don't have a location for that cell phone."

Police were able to eventually track the boy down. Officials want to remind parents who want to give old phones to their kids to play with to remove the battery first.