Fire Critic An Unadulterated View of the Fire Service
You see what I did there? Yeah, I used a plain English to text lingo translator. Yeah, I am trying to get to the crowd who might use this technology.
In plain English, the title should read “Maryland County 911 Center Accepts Text Messages for 911 Communications”.
Firehouse.com has the story:
If you can’t speak or it’s too dangerous for someone to hear your voice, requesting help in one Maryland county is easier now — send a text.
Frederick County emergency communications personnel are standing by ready to take text requests from Verizon wireless customers for ambulance, fire or police services.
The largest land mass county in Maryland became the sixth jurisdiction in the country to offer the life-saving initiative.
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The FCC put a nationwide deadline on the texting capability of May 15, 2014.
York County, Va., the first communications center to accept 911 texts, receives several hundred a month, officials noted.
