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Originally Posted by strupgolf
Funny story. While I was getting gas in our town, a semi made a right turn and hit a 50 year old light pole, not working, but still there. I told the girl next to me, "watch this". Now there was no damage to the truck, street, cars, etc. Withing a few minutes there were 2 city police cars, 3 country police cars, 2 ambulances, 2 fire trucks and who know's who else. The fire station was a 1/2 block down the street and they could have looked out the door to see nothing happened. My point being at budget time, the fire chief will get up and say "our department responded to 595 incidents last year so we need more money etc, etc, etc.
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Welcome to the modern world of cell phones.
Caller 1 to 911 says "Semi just hit a utility pole at XY intersection" 911 asks "is there wires down?" Caller says "I don't know, I'm headed South"
Caller 2 to 911 says "There's a accident with a big truck on X street, it's blocking traffic." 911 asks "at what intersection?" Caller who's heading North looks up and tells them the intersection they just passed (which is 2 blocks North of the actual accident)
Now 911 thinks they have two accidents 2 blocks apart and sends the appropiate equipment and it all shows up at the same spot.
Happens all the time