Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How long were you on hold? I had to call Sunday evening and it took 5 min before I had a live person on the phone. This was in DC

Seriously? Unless a plane had just crashed on the mall I find this hard to believe
( 911 dispatcher for another jurisdiction that’s not DC)

They even hang up on you here and call back.

Anonymous wrote:
Im in my 30’s
Called 911 for the first time ever call lasted 4 minutes

Aren't you clever!

It is kind of amazing to me that this is an event so rare in an adult's life that you would memorialize it like this. I have called 911...probably dozens of times. Here are a few:

-Woman at bus stop having asthma attack, no inhaler and asked for me to call
-Car accidents--if police/rescue are not already present, cars are disabled and it's not obvious that everyone involved is OK, I call
-In traffic on I-95 about 7-8 years ago, guy in the car behind me was having some kind of mental event during which he was thrashing around behind the wheel of the car and ultimately got out and laid face-down in the middle of the interstate (traffic was stopped, fortunately)
-Domestic violence taking place in apartment next to mine 20 years ago (2-3 times)
-Walking to and from my workplace near Union Station, anytime I saw someone unconscious who was not clearly sleeping or someone who was showing signs of drug-induced distress (including some who were not breathing normally)
-Another passenger on Metro had a medical event, needed help

Have you just been walking by stuff like this until now OP, or are we living on different planets?

I've called 911 many times...for neighbors who were fighting so loudly I thought they were going to kill each other, for unwell people on the street, for myself to request an ambulance because I needed to go to the ER and had no other means of getting there, to report a traffic light was out at major intersections, after a shooting I witnessed/heard...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How long were you on hold? I had to call Sunday evening and it took 5 min before I had a live person on the phone. This was in DC

Seriously? Unless a plane had just crashed on the mall I find this hard to believe
( 911 dispatcher for another jurisdiction that’s not DC)

You should google it. DC 911 is a massive shitshow. Their rate for people hanging up because they spend so long on hold is VERY high. We just had an incident in our neighborhood that prompted a 911 call, and in the neighborhood forum people were posting about recent calls to DC 911 and how long it took them to answer (5 minutes, 8 minutes, 10 minutes - getting hung up on - etc.). It's very scary.

This is not true and you should be ashamed for exaggerating and outright lying like this.

I had to call 911 when I learned my mom had died, and I didn’t realize at that time the service only works locally.
(I was calling from DC and she was in Stafford County, a couple of counties south of DC.)
Bless my mom’s neighbor heart that then called 911 for me. It was frustrating, to say the least, that one dispatch can’t help contact another. Especially when minutes matter.

Join the club. I've called 911 for someone erratically wandering down the middle of a highway, a drunk wavering on the sidewalk on Georgia avenue (no grass border), witnessing a car accident (someone was laying in the road) from my apartment window in Baltimore, and overhearing what sounded like domestic violence next door to an apartment that I was visiting.
Each time the person picked up immediately.

My dad called 911 by accident (shaky fingers) early one morning, realized the error, and hung up. 10 minutes later there’s an officer at the door to check on things, and they asked who else lived there. When he said just me and my wife, they very politely said they couldn’t leave until they saw my mom was ok. So dad had to go wake her up, and she had to come out in her pajamas to show she was alive and well. He was in the doghouse for that one!
(This took place in a non-DMV state, btw.)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How long were you on hold? I had to call Sunday evening and it took 5 min before I had a live person on the phone. This was in DC

Seriously? Unless a plane had just crashed on the mall I find this hard to believe
( 911 dispatcher for another jurisdiction that’s not DC)

You should look up Statter911 on X. DC's 911 has serious understaffing problems, and other problems with the folks who do work there. I don't doubt this for a second.

DC is notorious. I lived in DC when a little girl choked to death due to an inept 911 response.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/choking-toddler-dies-after-dc-fails-to-dispatch-closest-paramedic-to-house/2015/03/19/1a5c8cce-ce5b-11e4-8a46-b1dc9be5a8ff_story.html

We felt a little unsure about leaving DC for the suburbs, but these kinds of public safety news stories helped convince us to leave.

See above re: Takoma Park!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How long were you on hold? I had to call Sunday evening and it took 5 min before I had a live person on the phone. This was in DC

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Oof this scares me

That’s terrifying. I called 911 when my DH was having a massive heart attack. They answered right away, paramedics were at our house in about 6-7 minutes. Saved his life. If I had to be on hold first he wouldn’t be here today.

I had the same thing happen earlier this year with my DC 911 call. I was on my iphone and my call got routed to Montgomery County, she said she couldn't help, but would wait on the line. It was nearly 4 min she was on hold with me, after picking up 30 seconds, all documented on my iphone on a random weekday about 5pm. People would be dead by that point. It's truly scary.

Anonymous wrote:This is a troll post.

OP isn’t smart enough to do a troll post. Just uninteresting and doesn’t understand what AMAs are for.