justin_o_guy2 wrote on 10/11/11 at 17:33:18:& yes, they SAY there are no dumb questions, but I was watching TV the other nite & someone actually asked
Whats the number to 911...
& THAT M'frinz, is just DUMB..
My area's emergency number wasnt 911 for a long long time.
It was 795-3000.
If you called 911 you got city of Pgh not the most local dispatch. Eventually the area grew too big for its area code and now has 2.
412 and 724.
When that happened you had to dial the local area code before the number all the time, so the emergency number was switched to 911 so you didnt have to dial 10 numbers and 2 different local dispatch area codes....except i wasnt aware of that when my coworker had a seizure. I didnt know if my new job was 412 or 724, what the local dispatch number was, or if it under city of Pgh's 911.
Yes...I did, in fact, ask what the emergency number was and imagine how stupid i felt when i was told with an incredulous look ..."911"