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