Suppose you are speaking with someone and the person on the other line has a medical emergency which is in a different state requires an ambulance. How would you go about contacting that state/county's 9-1-1 emergency deployment department?
2006-11-27 09:54:02 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
This has happened to us recently. You can't dial 911 because you end up with your own city's emergency services. You need to keep someone on the one line while someone calls operator assistance on another phone. Use the area code of the person in need and 555-1212 and tell the operator the situation she will give you or call the number for you. Make sure you have the address of the person and let emergency services know that you are in another city/state and was talking to them when they stopped talking, you heard them collapse, scream, whatever.
Its a hassle but for us the police got their in time. We had an overdose situation.
2006-11-27 10:01:46 · answer #1 · answered by Tapestry6 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would contact the operator, and give him/her the specifics, name of person, location, type of emergency it is. It wouldn't be the first time this has happened.
An on-line group had such an emergency about two years ago. A lady was on-line with a group of friends, but at some point, when she failed to respond to another member they contacted emergency officials right away. It was in the local paper. I believe the group was spread between Vancouver, B. C. and Oregon.
2006-11-27 18:05:55 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You begin by dialing 911. If you are calling from a cell phone, normally you will be transferred to the state police 911 line, where you can explain the situation to them and they'll be able to transfer your call to that areas 911 operator. From a land line, the call will go to your local 911 dispatch area and then once again you explain the situation and they can transfer you to that area's 911 operators.
2006-11-30 00:32:10 · answer #3 · answered by emtpasty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dial 911, tell them the situation and they will transfer you. If you do this from a cell phone, its alot faster.
2006-11-27 17:55:08 · answer #4 · answered by Angel Eve 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Presumably you can just give your own 911 people the other person's phone number or postal address - they should know what to do!
2006-11-27 17:57:45 · answer #5 · answered by poleydee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋