Huge wrote:
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:56:15 +0000, "nightjar" cpb@ wrote:

"The Medway Handyman" wrote in
message om... ...
The ambulance service can track the address of a landline phone or the
location of a mobile in seconds....
Not around here.

Nor here. When someone dumped and set fire to a stolen car in a nearby
layby, the fire brigade worryingly couldn't find us.

That, I believe, is all down to centralisation. Once upon a time, emergency
calls were handled by operators in the local exchange, but now they could be 200
miles away and have absolutely no local knowledge that they can use to pass on
to the service on the street.

I've had the same experience in the same vein when calling for an ambulance.

-- JJ