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Or given us a false sense of security? The Deadly Flaw In Our Emergency Calls For Help: Lack Of Location Data …But has mobile technology made emergency response times faster, Thankfully, by 1961 Australia had introduced triple zero (000) as their national emergency number, and in 1968 the US adopted 911 nationwide. Great, so at least by the 70’s you no longer needed to pack a rolodex of emergency numbers into your luggage.įast forward to 2016, and at least our mobile devices allow us to become moving targets instead of sitting ducks! So if you were outside your home town, you would have to have known the local emergency number to call for help. …Imagine knowing the perpetrator is getting closer, yet because your phone is attached to a chord in the wall, staying on the line meant you were a sitting duck!Īdded to this, prior to the 1960’s there was no national 3 digit emergency number to dial. If you’re one of the few homes that even have a phone, you could be waiting minutes for the operator to answer.Īs every second passes, you’re barely able to breath not knowing how long it will be before you’re manually transferred to the police.Īnd if you thought the wait time was your biggest barrier to getting help, it gets worse… Imagine it’s 3am in the year 1959 and you hear someone breaking into your home.

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