A US woman who made a bogus call to 911 was forced to phone an emergency operator again just six minutes later when she became trapped under a garage door, suffering fatal injuries.
Melissa Farris falsely claimed to an emergency operator there had been a car accident on a nearby highway in Caldwell, Idaho, on October 2.
Police claim Farris used the call as a diversion so an ambulance would be called from the Canyon County ambulance station, allowing her to sneak into the building.
But Farris, a former paramedic at the station, was pinned to the ground by the garage door as she tried to crawl inside.
In recordings of the 911 calls released by police, Farris can be heard making her initial bogus claim under the pseudonym "Stacy".
"My name is Stacy and I am driving toward Ontario and a car went off into the median at mile marker 22 and I am trying to get stopped," she says.
But police say Farris was really making the call from a hotel across the street from the ambulance station, waiting for the paramedics to be called out.
Authorities say they received a second call from Farris six minutes later, in which she is heard gasping for air.
"Medic...4...help...door," she says.
The operator sent a paramedic crew to free Farris but she was unable to be revived.
There was no clear motive for why Farris was trying to get into the building, police said.
But one report by local network KBCI-TV claimed Farris may have been trying to enter the building to access some prescription medication in the storeroom.
Farris was reportedly sacked from the station in November 2008 after failing a drug test.
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