On 16 Jan 2009 08:52:30 GMT, Huge wrote:

The ambulance service can track the address of a landline phone or the
location of a mobile in seconds....

Not around here.

Nor here.

Or here, I don't think we have even working day ambulance/paramedic cover
now that isn't 1hr away. They'll miss the target for calls out here but
so what? There is an average of 1.5/week it won't affect the overall
score one iota. The fcat it could well cost some one their life doesn't
seem to figure in the Ambulance Services view.

When someone dumped and set fire to a stolen car in a nearby layby, the
fire brigade worryingly couldn't find us.

I have told the Ambulance Service our address and phone number so, in
theory, if we call them our address and location pops up on screen. Don't
know if that information is passed to the crew though, or if control has a
GPS feed of ambulance locations so could "talk them in", always assuming
the ambulance radio works out here.

The Fire Service I haven't told but then unless the pump is out on another
shout several of the fire officers will have driven past to get to the
pump to come back to us. B-)

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Cheers
Dave.