World's Trending Portal: Five-year-old calls 911 to invite Florida police officers for Thanksgiving dinner

Calls to emergency services are not usually bearing good news — but one police station in Florida received a heartwarming 911 call on Thanksgiving from a five-year-old boy inviting staff to join his family for dinner.

PHOTO: Billy was visited by deputies Damon Byrd and Aaron Ethridge.
(Facebook: Walton County Sheriff, Michael A. Atkinson, Jr.)

Shortly before his family sat down for the annual feast, Walton County resident Billy Nolin called emergency services dispatchers at the Walton County Sheriff's Office to invite the officers over.

"With all the bad calls we take on a daily basis this one was a welcomed happy call that made all of us smile," lead communications officer Monica Webster said. Billy's kindness was rewarded — deputies Damon Byrd and Aaron Ethridge paid the family a visit. They gave Billy a sheriff's badge and let him sit in their patrol car.

Billy told local news organisation Northwest Florida Daily News that he "wanted them to have cheesecake with us".

"It's my favourite, so I wanted them to have some, too," he said.

The Walton County Sheriff's Office wrote on Facebook that Billy had "melted all the hearts" in the police station. "While we do not encourage this use of 911 ... we are so honoured at the invitation," the post read.