These stories are from the early 2000's.
Orig source was ARRL, I believe:
Youngsters hailed in radio rescue:
Two young Oregon brothers are being
credited with quick thinking after they intercepted a plea for help
transmitted via a Family Radio Service UHF transceiver by some injured
mountaineers more than 80 miles away. Fletcher and Parker Wold, ages 7
and 5 respectively, of McMinnville, heard the call for help put out by
climbers Iain Morris, 23, and Jim Clark, 38. Morris and Clark had been
caught in a rock slide on Mount Hood June 20, and Morris was seriously
injured. The brothers immediately alerted their dad, Mike Wold, who
contacted authorities, triggering a full-scale mountain rescue. Mike
Wold says he gave the boys the hand-held transceivers to use when
playing in the woods, so he could keep in touch with them.
Another long-distance FRS rescue:
An 11-year-old Marysville, Washington, girl helped rescue a stranded and injured hiker 100 miles away on September 24 when she picked up his call for help on her Family Radio Service UHF H-T. Mikayala Whitley was playing Sunday with the little transceiver outside her home in north of Seattle when she heard the call for help and responded. She was able to keep in contact with injured hiker Michael Wyant, 49, throughout the afternoon. The girl's parents called authorities, who launched a rescue with the youngster acting as a communication relay between the hiker and rescuers. Wyant was picked up by a helicopter later that afternoon, treated at a hospital and released. He also called to thank his radio rescuer. The FRS units--which operate in the 462-MHz range--have a typical range of a couple of miles. In June, two young Oregon brothers were credited with quick thinking after they intercepted a plea for help transmitted via an FRS UHF transceiver by
some injured mountaineers more than 80 miles away. Those hikers also were rescued as a result.
IT HAPPENS!