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Post by Neal on Jul 12, 2022 19:54:15 GMT -5
I stumbled on to this guy. Dry humor, life observations, picking on Gen-z. No politics, no profanity, no "Adult Rated" language. About 39 minutes long.
A high point for me is his telephone vs cell phone observations. Did you know there are Public Service Advertisements in Seattle Washington telling people that you have to DIAL 911 AND SPEAK to the operator. You cannot text to 911!
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Post by PaulR5 on Jul 16, 2022 2:24:20 GMT -5
In some areas of the USA you CAN text 911. It is not yet common.
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Post by Neal on Jul 18, 2022 7:02:24 GMT -5
In some areas of the USA you CAN text 911. It is not yet common. Interesting. I couldn't initially think of a reason to Text 911. Then I wondered how would a deaf and or mute person get help. Is there a special number for hearing impaired people? Then my cynical pessimist self wondered if you were hiding from someone and didn't want to be heard would that be an available option? There have been several news stories of 911 operators dissing "Normal" callers and one I saw yesterday were he refused to send an ambulance. How would most 911 operators respond to text messages? And, since the 911 operators are on "land Lines" how would they even get a text message? Ouch... My head hurts. |
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Post by PaulR5 on Jul 22, 2022 1:22:26 GMT -5
While the number of E-911 (Enhanced 911) systems which can handle text and TTY messages are limited, they are gradually growing in number. The equipment is not cheap, however, and it requires a substantial financial commitment on the part of the county or city installing and/or upgrading their 911 system.
911 systems are not perfect. When cell phones are involved, strange things happen. Some years back, the Greene County, Missouri, 911 system (Springfield, Missouri area) received a cell call from someone reporting an accident, and street names did not match up, nor descriptions of the terrain. With more questions, they discovered the call was coming from the plains in the middle of Kansas! Fortunately, they had the capability to transfer the call to the Kansas county where the accident happened.
The following web address has information on which counties in Missouri have 911 text capability now, and where it will be implemented, and where it is not being planned in the reasonably close future. I used Bing to find the chart and info. I am guessing info is available for every state, but I don't know that for sure. Some of the info is fascinating.
www.missouri911.org/textto911/consumer
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Post by glh on Jul 22, 2022 18:36:41 GMT -5
About eighteen years ago I was one of the first to arrive at a double fatality car crash, both drivers were killed on impact. I called 9-1-1 on my cell phone and landed a dispatcher about 40 miles away, two counties over. We like to have never gotten first responders to the scene as there was a sole survivor, a badly injured 22-month-old girl whose mother had died in the crash.
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Post by Neal on Jul 22, 2022 21:31:41 GMT -5
WOW guys!
Thanks for the input. I live in Phoenix, AZ and have taken 911 for granted. I've called from my car several times over the years to tell the Police something. And several times from home to get medical aid for my housemate. Two calls I made ended well but I've always wondered about what happened after the first one I'll mention and what caused the second one.
The first one was when I was living with my son. My daughter-in-law and I were returning home and I saw a small boy I didn't recognize walking slowly past our house. I had my daughter-in-law approach him (I thought she would look less intimidating than me.) and ask if he was lost. He was lost and Downs Syndrome.
She got him to sit in our front yard while I called 911. The boy about 9, knew the house number but not the street of his new house. The police were rapid in arriving and I asked if they'd let me know what happened to the boy. The officer came back about 45 minutes later and personally explained that the boy had been with a new friend from school and the mother of that boy said they were going to eat, and he should go home. The boy thought he could find his new house. His father was deployed, and his mother had already called the police reporting him missing so the police put two and two together and got him home quickly. It was nice of the responding officer to come back personally and let me know what happened. I never saw the kid again, so I never found out how far off he was in getting home.
The strangest call I made was after dropping my grandkids off at elementary school one cold February morning. I saw a slender older teen girl dressed only in one pink sock on her right foot and a twin size fitted sheet wrapped around her walking down the sidewalk. I called 911 and told the operator what I was seeing. I told her I was in a White Nissan Frontier with my flashers on following behind her. The girl was not accepting offered rides and I didn't think she'd accept one from me an old white male. The 911 operator kept me on the line, and I kept her informed on where the girl was. It seemed like an eternity but was probably less then 15 minutes when 2 police in one car edged up behind her and got her in their car. My daughter-law-was livid and full of date gone wrong theories. I've always wondered what caused her to be where she was and how authorities and parents reacted to her situation.
glh--- I choose to believe all is well and your recovery is going as planned.
ADDED ON after Googling "Arizona 911." Risk averse as I am, I know where all my other "Emergency" gear is, how it works, what it will and won't do and when and how to use it. I can't believe I just assumed 911 would always work when I needed it.
"People also ask
How do I text 911 in Arizona?
Text-to-911 is NOW available in EVERY county in Arizona. Here is what you need to do to use Text-to-911 during an emergency: open a new text message in your phone's messaging app, enter 911 as the recipient, type your message and hit “send.”"
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