Have you ever called 911

[BriarfoxinWA]

The last time I called was when one of my employees hurt her back. She was lifting coin in our bank vault. She couldn't get up and was in extreme pain. So EMS came and took her to the ER.

My son is currently going through EMT training so I'm learning lots more than I need to know about emergency medical care

 

[pigletliz]

Do you get both landline and cell 911 calls?

In California landline 911 calls all go to the Law enforcement dispatch center, with fire and medical aid calls transfered as needed.

Cellular 911 calls all go to the California Highway patrol dispatch center, where they are transfered to local police, and fire as needed.

Years ago, all cellular 911 calls went to the CHP. That hasn't been the case for several years. While the CHP still gets a huge number of cellular 911 calls, many of them now go to directly the local law enforcement agency. That takes some of the call load off of the CHP

 

[tvguy]

Years ago, all cellular 911 calls went to the CHP. That hasn't been the case for several years. While the CHP still gets a huge number of cellular 911 calls, many of them now go to directly the local law enforcement agency. That takes some of the call load off of the CHP

Hmmm, will have to investigate. In Sacramento, all cell 911 calls still to to CHP.

 

[pigletliz]

I wonder if Sacramento CHP is the primary for that City? I recall it being a big deal because the other law psaps had not taken their "own" calls. I think the CHP still covers the freeways. Let me know what you find out.

 

[tvguy]

I wonder if Sacramento CHP is the primary for that City? I recall it being a big deal because the other law psaps had not taken their "own" calls. I think the CHP still covers the freeways. Let me know what you find out.

CHP covers freeways an all the surface streets in the County of Sacramento. There are 7 cities within the county, each with their own police department that handle their own traffic enforcement, but the largest population base is actually outside those city borders. Sacramento may be the odd are out in that regard.

So, are celluar 911 calls in your area routed to the jurisdiction that the tower the call is hitting is in? I know before cell phones went digital, the old analog signals traveled a lot further. A friend who is a CHP dispatcher took a cellular 9-1-1 call that was hitting a Sacramento County tower, but the caller was in San Francisco, 60 miles away.

 

[njmom47]

I live within a stone's throw of a VERY major road and hear crashes in the middle of the night from time to time; probably have called at least 3 times.
I have called for a family dispute (yes, mine, ).
I used to live in an apartment and called 911 in the middle of the night because the convience store across the street was being robbed. They caught the guy with major amount of cartons of cigarettes. (I had come home from the bar but wasn't drunk, heard the alarms, saw the car and gave a description).
And one time when DD#1 had a seizure at 1 yr old.

 

[VAfamily1998]

A couple times, at least.

Once in college (nearly 20 years ago!) when my roommate (another early 20's female) and I lived in an apartment in a borderline-scary part of Long Beach, CA. At 2 am my roommate came into my room saying an unknown male was knocking on our door. I could hear the knocking and a male voice, but I couldn't make out what he was saying. We called 911 and the operator told me that officers would stop by if they got around to it, but it would be at least an hour. Very reassuring. Eventually the guy stopped knocking and left (I did find out, a few weeks later, who the guy was...but that's a whole other story!)

A few years ago, we were driving on the freeway and 2 cars started driving like crazy--boxing us in, tailgating us, cutting in front of us then slamming on breaks. The two cars were working together to terrorize us--no idea why. It was terrifying though, really. I was the passenger and called 911. This went on for about 10 minutes, then the cars sped off. We never did see any highway patrol/police respond.

 

[MomRN]

I have a few times. I don't remember the specifics on all the times, but a few come to mind...

Once, while waiting for my step-daughter to get off work at McDonalds, there was a domestic dispute. At first it was just a yelling match, which was ridiculous in front of the kids, but when they started playing tag-of-war with the 2 year old I was done. I tried to call 911 several times and it kept ringing busy... later on the news I guess many people were calling due to a power outage. The employees inside were eventually able to get through on the non-emergency line.

A few months ago my husband comes in to wake me up from my couch nap begging me to wake up. My son was playing Minecraft on the X-Box and he asks "Did you call 911?" and my son denied it (which he rarely lies, and who has time to call 911 when you're playing Minecraft?) Turns out the phone had went out and it had called 911. The officer was pretty insistent I be woke up to make sure I was okay. Understandable.

About 20 years ago my sister called 911 when it was brand new to the area. Left the phone on the table and walked away. In the meantime, my mother and grandmother were talking about the Susan Smith case. You can imagine what the dispatcher thought catching bits and pieces of that conversation. I don't even remember how many police/fire/ambulances arrived...at least a dozen. It made the news as a reminder to teach your kids not to call 911...

 

[Talking Hands]

Called quite a few times. Twice we were broken into.
3 times for house fires and one was my house.
1 time when a truck full fo drunks crashed into the Florida room of our neighbors up the street after hitting another car.
1 time we heard a child screaming from the house across the street saying don't hit the baby over and over.

I am thankful for people who call 911 in an emergency. If it had not been for a person who saw my daughter's car hit and run and followed and got the license the person would not have been caught and her medical expenses might not get paid.

 

[Help Please!]

Oh geez...a number of times!

A number of accidents (most not involving me!), 2 dogs darting in and out of traffic on I-95 (people swerving and many near crashes!), for students at a camp I was a supervisor at (many times!), when my husband passed out in the shower and hit his head/face on the tile (and we couldn't get him into the car to take him to the ER), I'm sure there are more!

Actually, one time I was driving on the Turnpike southbound, from college in Tallahassee to meet family at Disney . There was HORRIBLE weather, you could barely see the road. All of a sudden, between windshield swipes, I saw a tree fall down across the entire road. I had to slam on my brakes to not hit it, and couldn't tell if there were any cars trapped underneath. So scary!

 

[arminnie]

Countless times. My 250 lb. father would fall and I could not lift him back up. Both my sister's knees went out in a fall. Several times for me or some other relative. My dad had a stroke, etc. etc.

Last time - July 2012, I woke up with a fever, called 911 a few hours later. My bp was 40/30 and I was in a coma on life support for a week. No one could believe I lived - e coli sepsis.

 

[Mandy_in_NC]

Do you get both landline and cell 911 calls?

In California landline 911 calls all go to the Law enforcement dispatch center, with fire and medical aid calls transfered as needed.

Cellular 911 calls all go to the California Highway patrol dispatch center, where they are transfered to local police, and fire as needed.

We get landline calls and cell calls on 911. If we get a 911 call that is not ours we transfer it to the right county or state. We are close to the edge of SC and we sometimes get cell calls for them.

 

[indimom]

Never. I've been involved in a few incidents/accidents over the years, but rarely carry a phone, so someone else has always handled it.

 

[tvguy]

Years ago, all cellular 911 calls went to the CHP. That hasn't been the case for several years. While the CHP still gets a huge number of cellular 911 calls, many of them now go to directly the local law enforcement agency. That takes some of the call load off of the CHP

Okay, CHP tells me that 2 years ago, a few cities (3 or 4) did take over cellular 911, but the majority of cell calls still go to CHP first. This is an experiment paid for with a federal grant.

 

[princessmerida]

From what I've been told, twice. Apparently when I was 4 my parents went out for dinner and left me with my grandparents and I got upset and called 911. Lol the second time was when I was rear ended but it wasn't bad.

 

[Bonnie151]

Only once. Years and years ago there was some guy banging on my door in the middle of the night. He was threatening to break the door down and kill me. The police came and it turned out he was completely drunk and had the wrong flat.

 

[Miranda Danda]

We called in September 2012. It was right before our first family trip to WDW. We were pulling into our local Wal-Mart to get last minute things when we saw a man on a bicycle get hit by a truck. Our DD4 was in the car at the time and it was heartbreaking. I was trying to shield her and stay calm. Thankfully, the driver of the truck stayed on the scene and the fire department was about 1/4 mile down the road. We never found out the poor man's fate, but we didn't see anything about it in the newspaper so I guess he was okay.