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?

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Answer 1

Here in Australia we have to tell emergency services our state and town plus the closest crossroad, we’ll from all my ambulance calling experience, ive had to anyway