Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 911 dispatch center in Bergen County, New Jersey. Hundreds of millions of 911 calls pour into the country’s roughly 6,000 ...

911 systems across Mississippi were fully restored Thursday evening, the governor said, after going down earlier Thursday afternoon. Systems in Louisiana were still being restored, authorities said.

A Seattle woman waited more than 10 hours for a nurse-ordered ambulance, raising concerns about the city’s 911 nurse triage system and response standards.

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — When an emergency happens in Collier County, Florida, the 911 calls go to one of the most high-tech communications centers in the U.S., where callers can send text and video from ...

PEND OREILLE COUNTY, Wash. — An emergency room physician is now responding to the same 911 calls as firefighters in Pend Oreille County, marking what officials say is the first program of its kind in ...

Holiday travel and winter storms create risky moments for drivers and families. Stress rises fast during emergencies, and describing the scene to 911 can feel overwhelming. Now, a new Android feature ...

The 911 outage reported across Pennsylvania Friday afternoon was restored, the state's emergency management agency announced Saturday morning. In a post on X shortly after midnight Saturday, the ...

Extreme heat is increasingly the culprit behind 911 emergency calls among older and lower-income individuals and those living in the Intermountain West, new research out of the University of Arizona ...

HANOVER, PA ‒ Phones in Pennsylvania rang out with the eerie noise of an emergency alert on Friday afternoon, July 11, as the state warned of an intermittent 911 outage. "Pennsylvania is experiencing ...