React Mobile is a personal safety app that acts like a blue-light emergency phone you can carry in your pocket. You can use it to stay in touch with friends and family, update specific contacts with your location, and discreetly call for help.
Who could have used ReactMobile: Victims of the London Beer Flood
Update: Heading home from work. Track my progress using my phone’s GPS.
Update: A 135,000-gallon vat of beer has erupted, destroying everything in its path. Am on the roof of St. Giles’ pub. A bit damp but I’m safe. Please send help; I can’t swim. No one knows how to swim.
Who could have used ReactMobile: Athenian Lawgiver Draco
SUBJECT: SOS
Location: Aeginan Theater
Emergency: Being honored by the Aeginetans in the theatre; buried in so many hats and cloaks thrown in celebration that suffocation is imminent. Please call 911.
Who could have used ReactMobile: Rasputin
Your connection has eaten poisoned petit fours. Contact Poison Control?
Your connection has been shot by Russian conspirators. Contact an ambulance?
Your connection has been clubbed by a minor member of the nobility. Contact the police?
Your connection has been wrapped in an Imperial rug and thrown in the Malaya Nevka River. Contact the Coast Guard?
Who could have used ReactMobile: Victims of the 1919 Boston Molasses Flood
Update: Heading home from work. Track my progress using my phone’s GPS.
Update: A 2.3-million-gallon vat of molasses has erupted, destroying everything in its path. Am on the roof of the North End pub. A bit sticky, but I’m safe. Please send help; I can’t swim. If help not available, send cornbread.
The React Mobile App is free to download and always available, no matter how unlikely the situation.
Mallory is an Editor of The Toast.