But just minutes before she was going to dial, her mother called with some bad news.
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Her mother called her just as the tornado was bearing down on her.
They called her mother in Redding's hometown of Tucson, Arizona.
The girl had called her mother over when another set of police officers suddenly pulled up in a van and forced them to the ground, according to Myers' account.
Yates' lawyers called her mother, friends, and even a former prep school swim teammate to the stand to establish the mother as a stable individual who was only affected by her mental disorder.
When he asked if they should drive, she shook her head, so he called 911, and told her mother, Dawn, who was in the next room, what was going on.
The young child could not wake her and so she called 999 and told emergency services her mother was sleeping and would not wake up.
Anthony gained notoriety after her mother, Cindy Anthony, called police to arrest her daughter the day before, when she thought Casey had stolen the family car and some money.
In this touching video, her mother explains her birth defect called arthrogryposis and then the work of the amazing and cool team of researchers at Nemours, a pediatric health system in Delaware that has centers and labs to solve many unique problems for children.
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The defence say Miss Pearson and her mother suffered from a syndrome called folie a deux which meant the older woman was the dominant figure in the relationship and Miss Pearson therefore had a reduced capacity to appreciate the risk to her mother's health or the conditions they lived in.
Eight days after the attack, she called and asked her mother to pick her up at school.
The mother of three called her child-care providers to let them know.
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They called the doctor after her mother felt a chest pain as she scrubbed the floor on Easter Monday.
She sought her mother's help once she was called by Paula Jones' lawyers.
The witness told the court that about 19:00 she tried to phone her mother again and got no answer and called Mr Kane on his mobile.
The mother called 911 Wednesday evening after finding her 4-year-old son dead in the home in West Point, Utah.
The nuns noticed, called in a priest and convinced her mother that Maureen would be going to a "lovely school".
In it she described the terrible way in which her mother had been treated at Stafford Hospital, and called for anyone who had had a similar experience to contact her.
Though she had been specifically picked by Mr Breivik (who called her the murderer rather than the mother of the nation), she had fortunately left the island before he got there.
The woman slumped into bed when she got home but when she awoke she told her mother that she thought she had been drugged and the police were called.
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She'll be her own playback singer in a movie called "Maaee, " which means mother.
When I left Islam, my mother, who's eighty-eight now, I called her a few years ago and I told her yes, she asked me, did you leave Islam?
Guolee's mother, Deborah Eck, told The Denver Post that Guolee called her husband a week and a half ago to ask for a ride to the police station so he could turn himself in for what she believed was a parole violation.
"They had to do CPR on him every day, " said April Gionfriddo, Kaiba's mother, who later found out her son had a rare obstruction in his lungs called bronchial malacia.
Daniel Watson said he was at home with his children when his wife called from the Toys "R" Us store, where she and her mother were shopping.
Dugard's mother, Terry Probyn, helped start a program called A Fighting Chance in her daughter's honor six years after the disappearance, with the goal of empowering children to escape harmful situations.
Her personal integrity has made her all the more willing to appoint special prosecutors (when she was a lawyer in Miami, she called in a special prosecutor to investigate drunk-driving charges against her own mother).
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