Yep. Happens all the time in the far reaches of the mountains of Western NC near the Tennessee line. We have counties like the above and one or two deputies, if that, on duty. Provided they aren't already on a call, it may take them 30 minutes minimum on a good night to reach an emergency. On the main Cherokee reservation we have 24 hour coverage but down in the Snowbird section in Robbinsville and the Cherokee county tribal lands near Murphy and Andrews, our offficers work 12noon - 12 mid and overlap with another officer 6a-6p so there is a gap of coverage from midnight to 6a and the officer has to respond from home during that six hours.

Even on the main Cherokee rez, our officers may be tied up waaaay up on Rough Branch (toward Maggie Valley on US19) on a fight, domestic, etc. and we get a call up at the top of Big Cove 15 miles away on winding mountain roads that would give a Grand Prix driver fits. Add the man power shortage (today I am two short due to leave and illness) and I have a grand total of three officers to police a transient summer population of 150,000 and two counties. That's if Snowbird doesn't call and need help and we don't get a mental commitment we have to babysit.
 
This is just one of many reasons why the 2nd Amendment is so important to me. We are on our own until help arrives, if it arrives. Shortages happen for many reasons and its only going to get worse as lack of suitable new LEO candidates hits, money is even harder to come by, current LEO's get tired of the BS and walk away and crime/workload increases. Besides, having 24 hour coverage and enough coverage at that, is a modern convenience that wasn't around in my grandfather's day when he was a deputy sheriff back in the late 40's and 50's. Society is degenerating and we are falling back to "them days."

This is just one of many reasons why the 2nd Amendment is so important to me. We are on our own until help arrives, if it arrives. Shortages happen for many reasons...