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I called Aurora 911 a few months ago when a neighbor thought he was having a heart attack.
The call was very professionally handled.
The first responders (a Paramedic Engine Company) missed seeing us on the first pass, so I called again and they stayed on the line with me and talked them in to our location.
For the most part, 911 is a great system -- especially enhanced 911 where they can trace your call and location in case you can't talk or something -- or use it to alert residents in case of an evacuation, etc.
One funny story. A few years ago, we bought a new "wireless" phone system for our house and I got a call from local 911 in the middle of the night asking if everything was OK, because they had received a call from our phone number, with onbody on the line. The operator told me that wireless phones of that model and era would sometimes began dialing ramdom numbers when the battery got too low.
I wondered if it had called Australia...
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