Comment by ben_w

You're not the sender in this scenario, you're the receiver.

Noting that the sender is being weird during what appears to be an emergency is a choice that some people do make, but as per my other list of examples, people in actual emergency situations do sometimes act weird, and dismissing the sender or delaying response on the basis the sender is being weird, has led to actual deaths: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098781

(The converse: "people can act weird in emergencies" is exploited by scammers so cover suspicious phone numbers and mediocre deepfakes of voices).