Missing grandparents’ landline calling from collapsed condo, family says

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That's heart wrenching, a smashed and shorting phone line could call but not a specific and relevant number, could be the phone doing it, or some short code for calling the last number.

Often time shorted lines will end up calling 911 by chance.

Yes, a shorting phone might re-dial. Or an emergency alert bracelet attached to the phone line. It might be a sim based landline.

The building also might use a PABX.

What’s the context here? Why can’t someone go and investigate in person?

The key words in the headline are "collapsed condo" -- the reference is likely to this collapse that happened last week:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfside_condominium_building_...

Whoa, that’s terrible, and eerie with the phone calls.

Because the calling phone is under thousands of slabs of concrete

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