Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: intercon!amanda@uunet.uu.net (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Can There Be 'Fake' 911 In Rural Areas? Message-ID:Date: 9 Aug 89 15:28:05 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Amanda Walker Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Lines: 22 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 286, message 3 of 8 In article , davef@brspyr1.brs.com (Dave Fiske) writes: > [incident with rescue squad being sent to the wrong address] > When you consider that this scenario could have involved some actual > disaster, you can see how important 911 can be. Even so, there's still the possibility for human error--there was a sad story on the DC news recently about a person who died because the ambulance that had been dispatched on the 911 call was sent to the wrong quadrant of the city (NE instead of NW). (For those of you who aren't familiar with DC, most addresses occur 4 times, so you have to tack the quadrant [NW/NE/SE/SW] onto the address to fully specify a location.) Luckily, most cities are laid out a little less symmetrically than DC... -- Amanda Walker InterCon Systems Corporation -- amanda@intercon.uu.net | ...!uunet!intercon!amanda