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- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 02:59:07 GMT
- From: hps@sdf.lonestar.org (Holt Sorenson)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: 911 on Jerry Springer Show
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- In article <telecom12.660.9@eecs.nwu.edu> Jeff Garber <0005075968@
- mcimail.com> writes:
-
- > On The Jerry Springer Show (Aug 19, 11 A.M., KCAL Channel 9, Los
- > Angeles) the topic was 911. Apparently, someone in the Cincinnati
- > area called 911 from a cellular phone because he believed a man was
- > having a heart attack on the side of the road. The 911 operator told
- > him that they cannot accept calls from cellular phones! They actually
- > played the recording from the call on the show, so I heard it with my
- > own ears. The man died, although he was not suffering from a heart
- > attack, and it was determined that he would have died even without the
- > delay in reaching help. I never heard what he actually died of.
-
- I recently witnessed an accident as I was traveling the loop that
- surrounds Ft. Worth/Dallas TX and I exited immediately to find a pay
- phone. Approximately 30 seconds elapsed from the time I saw the
- accident to the time I began to dial 911. The operator informed me
- that they had already recieved a call from a cellular phone and that
- help was on the way, so I know that here in 817, 911 accepts cellular
- calls.
-
-
- Holt Sorenson
-
-