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kudos:5 | reply to verolom
Re: A little too late said by verolom:Land-line systems are far more reliable than any type of new generation wireless as they were build with nuclear holocaust, cold war in mind. My landline can't call the police in the park.
As someone who was trained to handle 9-1-1 calls (before cellular was a major 9-1-1 problem), I always asked the caller for location. In a few cases (1%-ish) had to put in a request to correct the database. In several cases, the caller isn't located where the problem was (2-3%, calling on behalf of someone else who had called them first). Lesson: landline isn't perfect.
Always -- ALWAYS expect to give your correct location. GPS or the E911 database is a nice feature, but 9-1-1 will never get away from having to attempt to verify the location of the incident with or without the location data provided by a network system.
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