FEMA has decided to create a new agency, the EPRS or Emergency Phone Rescue Service, pronounced "Ehpurrs". If your phone is lost in a hurricane, earthquake, nuclear meltdown or other, EPRS will send out a specially trained team to recover it.
EPURS is the first emergency rescue service to train duckbill platypus to recover phones.
"It was suggested at a meeting a few years ago and most of us didn't take it seriously" said Conrad Jeffries, the head of EPRS. However, we quickly learned to appreciate its slim body and duckbill beak which made it ideal in recovering phones in tight spots. To top it it's a great swimmer... the results have been amazing."
