MANTUA, Ohio (WKRC) — An Ohio man said his Amazon Alexa unit saved his life after a dangerous incident on Tuesday.

According to WJW, Bruce Chabra of Mantua, Ohio, is crediting his Alexa device for saving his life before Thanksgiving earlier this week.

The incident happened Tuesday afternoon when Chabra began using a propane heater while working on his cellar doors, the outlet reported. The heater reportedly began emitting a dangerous amount of carbon monoxide due to a malfunction. Chabra told WJW’s reporters that he “realized there was something wrong.”

Chabra said he suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, which is a term for “lung and airway diseases that restrict your breathing,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.

“People with COPD have airway inflammation and scarring, damage to the air sacs in their lungs, or both. Emphysema and chronic bronchitis are both forms of COPD. Treatments can manage symptoms and reduce exacerbations,” the clinic wrote.

Chabra said he first tried using an inhaler but became increasingly nauseated and disoriented, WJW reported. He told the outlet that he wasn’t able to find his phone, so he yelled up to his Amazon Alexa to call his wife, who was at work at the time.

Chabra’s wife, Jill Chabra, said she received three confusing voicemail messages from various numbers containing the sound of her husband trying to communicate with the Alexa device.

When speaking with WJW, Bruce Chabra said he never thought to call 911 himself.

“She’s my 911,” Bruce Chabra said of his wife. “I just thought about getting ahold of her and telling her what’s going on so she could say, ‘Do this,’ or ‘Do that.’”

Jill Chabra told WJW that she was luckily on her lunch break and decided to call a neighbor after she was unable to reach her husband on his phone. She then called 911. She further said that firefighters refused to let them stay in the house due to the dangerous levels of carbon monoxide inside.

“I just can’t believe things worked out the way they did, because if they hadn’t worked out this way, he would not be here today,” Jill Chabra said, adding that she wasn’t aware her Alexa device could make outgoing calls.

Bruce Chabra said, “It would’ve been a different Thanksgiving,” according to the report.

The family noted that they didn’t have carbon monoxide detectors in their home because it is all electric, and said they plan to get rid of their propane heaters and replace them with electric heaters, WJW reported.

“If it wasn’t for Alexa reaching me three or four times on my cell phone, I would’ve come home and he would’ve been in the basement or in the living room— not here, not with us,” Jill Chabra told the station.