WICHITA, Kansas -- Sedgwick County Emergency Services are reporting an increase in accidental calls from cell phones. They say it creates a potentially dangerous situation.

A feature on a lot of cell phones allows you to press one number and hold it down for a period of time to dial 911 in an emergency. Dispatchers say that is contributing to the increase in accidental calls.

About one in every five calls to 911 dispatch come from cell phones.

"We’ll get calls from cell phones to 911 from the bottom of people’s purses, their pocket, from football games -- we’ve heard people singing along with the radio," said Diane Gage, Sedgwick County Emergency Services.

Brooke Lyman knows how easily it can happen because it has happened to him more than once.

"I put it in my pocket and then you just press against something like your sweetheart or something," jokes Lyman.

But the folks at 911 aren’t laughing.

"On each one of those, we’ve got to call them back and see if there’s a problem there and we try to reach them so that tie us up and they don’t even know they’re doing it," said Gage.

After several times of having dispatchers call him back, Brook said he has learned his lesson. Dispatchers are hoping the message gets out to everyone else.

"I just started locking it," said Lyman. "You lock the keypad and you’re okay."

Dispatchers say flip phones are good because they are much harder to accidentally dial.