This article is badly written; i think it’s talking about the fire dept having to respond to “medical only” 911 calls.
I have a bit of real world experience with this being misused (lack of social services a whole other convo but read on). My slowly dying, often confused, and always stubborn uncle would routinely fall out of his chair and call 911 because he couldn’t get back up. Two or 3 times a week towards the end. Once he called them twice in one day.
This is probably to address that.
Not saying it’s justified, in fact it fucking sucks, but this is likely what the article is referencing, not charging people who call 911 for emergency response.
In bad country they charge you money just to come to the scene of an accident.
This article is badly written; i think it’s talking about the fire dept having to respond to “medical only” 911 calls.
I have a bit of real world experience with this being misused (lack of social services a whole other convo but read on). My slowly dying, often confused, and always stubborn uncle would routinely fall out of his chair and call 911 because he couldn’t get back up. Two or 3 times a week towards the end. Once he called them twice in one day.
This is probably to address that.
Not saying it’s justified, in fact it fucking sucks, but this is likely what the article is referencing, not charging people who call 911 for emergency response.