When You Dial 911 and Wall Street Answers

Re:When You Dial 911 and Wall Street Answers by bluejekyll on Sunday June 26, 2016 @10:44AM (#11980995)

In San Francisco, if you dial 911 on a cell phone you get the CHP, not San Francisco police. Adds delay to the help getting there.

There is real number you can dial instead, which I've stored in my phone and allows me to dial the SF 911 center directly.

Luckily I haven't needed it for more than a brush fire. This might be true in other states as well.

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Re:When You Dial 911 and Wall Street Answers by honkhonkpants on Sunday June 26, 2016 @11:50AM (#11981269)

In SF when you dial 911 it is a good solid five minutes before anyone picks up because there is first the TTY modem handshake and then a recorded message in English, Spanish, more than one kind of Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Tagalog, and on and on.

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Re:When You Dial 911 and Wall Street Answers by limeyx on Friday July 01, 2016 @12:02PM (#12017245)

Kind of amazing you can't make an account on 911.com, register your cell phone and home phone #s and put in your preferred language, allergies to medicines, serious illnesses etc and have all that come up to the dispatcher when you call....

But I also worked in that industry for a while and thats not going to happen anytime soon by the looks of it

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