When one call 911, how is the call automatically local?

Question

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?

In: Technology

Answer 1

I’ll tell you a quick story: while living in Bryan, TX I had to call 911 multiple times and each time it went to the 911 center of college station, TX. Which was the city that was connected to Bryan, and each time they had to transfer me to the correct center. Which added almost a minute to the call because the “wires kept getting crossed”.