EPPING, NH (WMUR/CNN) - Leslie Kahn’s leisurely swim turned into a desperate situation when her pool ladder broke, and she was unable to get out.
Suddenly, she was stuck without her phone and without any help.
"Without having something for my feet to put leverage on and without that upper body strength, it wasn't happening," she said.
Kahn, a 61-year-old breast cancer survivor, knew she could get through this.
She thought of her iPad.
“Got the trusty pool pole, grabbed the leg of the chair, dragged it over, grabbed the iPad, hooked it up to WiFi and asked my community for help,” she said.
She logged onto Epping Squawks, a town Facebook page with something always going on.
"I started with 911 and an exclamation point,” Kahn said. “I wanted to get people’s attention fast.”
She didn’t want the police or fire department - just a hand or a screwdriver to fix the ladder. Soon, a woman from a few streets away showed up.
“I was really glad to see her friendly face, and I sent her inside for a tool box,” Kahn said. “And then the police came, and then a neighbor came from up the street because he saw the police.”
She let her virtual friends, who had been expressing concern the whole time, know that help had arrived.
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