Hypothetically speaking, if someone is living in New York and they call 911, how does the call not go through a hospital in Los Angeles or other city from another state? How does the call automatically transfer to a local hospital in the area one lives in?
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911 on a cell phone now hits to the closest cell phone tower. Depending on where you are, it will hit with local police, your sheriff or your highway patrol.
But then it depends on how busy your area is. For example, if you’re calling 911 for a sideshow in a bigger city, most likely so will another 50 people. The first x amount of calls will go to the local police, cuz they’ll hit off those cell towers. But if all those lines are busy, cuz of too many callers, it’ll bounce till it finds an open line, and sometimes that’s with a different agency. When that happens we can usually transfer you over easy.
Thats why we say, if you already know someone’s calling, don’t call too thinking more calls means faster response. Just means your call is in the same line as another different emergency, and could be holding that person up.
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