Is there an SMS Emergency service in USA

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Hi everybody, could you please help?
I would like to know Is there an SMS Emergency service in USA, if so, how can I use it? are there any procedures to be followed?

Thanks in Advance.
 
Most 911 centers can't receive text messages yet. The top four wireless carriers in the U.S. have agreed to speed up their efforts to support text-to-911 capabilities, making it available by May 15, 2014 by FCC approval.
 
You wish to get 911 app now if having your iPhone. Use your iPhone to silently request help from 9-1-1 or a friend! You can now send text messages, photos and your location to participating 911 centers. If a local 911 center isn't available, we'll help you send a text message with your location to a friend so they can call 911 for you.

http://www.ten43.com/apps/Advanced911-iphone.html
 
That looks like a great app and just what I need! But I have Android phone.
 
This topic is supposed to be about emergency with sms or "texting" .

Funny thing you asked because I just recently did a little research on this. It all started with a shooting in town nearaby and some people got reverse 911 to their phones. I wanted to inquire on HOW reverse works and why?
First off - a little background . it ALL depends on the county you live in and your state how they spend the funds from 911 surcharges. In NYS, I learned that the surcharges on my text phones has a surcharge and money goes to the state. They get to decide where the money goes, but majority of money doesnt go to 911 dispatch centers. :ekk: I learned that if you signed up for spin on the county website, your phone gets registered for reverse 911. This will do a text call to all registered phones in the area and sometimes the dispatcher has the option to add a voice message. I also found out that the county 911 doesnt have the funds for 911 texting or anything. Over a year ago, the 911 texting used to go no where and now they setup a reply message saying 911 texting will NOT be responded to. The supeervisor of 911 showed me the software that is available to do a text "sms" call is available but it needs to be purchased . They also showed me another company that can go beyond that and do a gps trace based on cell towers triangulation, add flags and info about the people like if you have a autistic child in the home, or deaf etc so the police, or fire dept will know what to expect and be able to save lives. They told me that people have option to add that info if whey wish and rightly they should .

Problem is the money to purchase it to make it available.
 
Our college uses a system that is similar to a reverse 911 call for emergency notifications. When there is an emergency, I get a voice message on my landline phone and cell phone, a text message on my cell phone, and an email.

Our town does reverse 911 notifications but only voice messages on our landline phone. That could include TTY but not many in the Deaf community still have that.
 
Hawaii has E-911 system that can accept text-to-911.

Such a small island in the middle of a vast ocean has it, but the largest city in Alaska doesn't? Amazing huh?
 
Know why? It is all about towers and networking itself. Hawaii is very easy to set up just few towers on the mountains to do coverage whole islands while in Alaska, in order to cover entire state, they will need much much more towers, and complex networking cables to tie together than Hawai'I needs meaning costs would be over stratosphere for Alaska because not many people up there to cover the cost.

Same thing with Japan, they got much better and faster Internet than here in America. Japan has much more citizens packed in square mile than USA has.

So, it is not amazing, just makes clear sense to me that is all.

AlaskaStar said:
Hawaii has E-911 system that can accept text-to-911.

Such a small island in the middle of a vast ocean has it, but the largest city in Alaska doesn't? Amazing huh?
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Don't need the E-911 system out in the middle of nowhere. Carry a gun. All the towns that have no cops have citizens armed like crazy and they are a very peaceful bunch.

Now in Anchorage (largest city in the state- we refer to it by several nicknames like "Los Anchorage" "Skankorage" "Spankorage" "Anger-age" "Anchoragua" and a few more), we'd need the E-911 system.

Not to call the cops, but to get the cops arrested. Look up Anchorage Police, they had Anthony Rollins for example raping women on shift. A quick picture of the cop doing something wrong... that'd do it.

Out in the sticks/ bush communities, there's too many guns and people with itchy trigger fingers for that kind of stuff to happen very often.
 
AlaskaStar said:
Don't need the E-911 system out in the middle of nowhere. Carry a gun. All the towns that have no cops have citizens armed like crazy and they are a very peaceful bunch.

Now in Anchorage (largest city in the state- we refer to it by several nicknames like "Los Anchorage" "Skankorage" "Spankorage" "Anger-age" "Anchoragua" and a few more), we'd need the E-911 system.

Not to call the cops, but to get the cops arrested. Look up Anchorage Police, they had Anthony Rollins for example raping women on shift. A quick picture of the cop doing something wrong... that'd do it.

Out in the sticks/ bush communities, there's too many guns and people with itchy trigger fingers for that kind of stuff to happen very often.
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Your guns won't do anything for a medical emergency!
 
In the middle of nowhere, if you aren't prepared to literally stitch yourself back together, or in the case of one guy who got his hand in a bear trap- he put a tourniquet on his arm and used a chainsaw to cut it off and then used the wood fire to catarize it before heading into town on his snowmachine... Times like that- even a SMS E-911 phone system will be of no help whatsoever.
 
AlaskaStar said:
In the middle of nowhere, if you aren't prepared to literally stitch yourself back together, or in the case of one guy who got his hand in a bear trap- he put a tourniquet on his arm and used a chainsaw to cut it off and then used the wood fire to catarize it before heading into town on his snowmachine... Times like that- even a SMS E-911 phone system will be of no help whatsoever.
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Uh? :shock: He didnt save his hand and bring it back with him for doctors to reattach?
 
Nah. Jim is a pretty tough guy, and that bear trap got him good. Was middle of winter and what was left of his hand was too frost bitten to save because of the blood flow cut off.

He lives not far from where Helo 1 went down...

Point is only need the SMS E-911 system in the cities. Beyond that you are on your own anyway and you must be prepared to do whatever it takes to survive.

Jim telling how he used his foot to hold the saw to the floor while he pulled the rope for what seemed like an eternity to get it started was something else. Frozen chainsaw not easy to start...
 
AlaskaStar said:
.... Jim telling how he used his foot to hold the saw to the floor while he pulled the rope for what seemed like an eternity to get it started was something else. Frozen chainsaw not easy to start...
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I was wondering how he started the saw. Wow!
 
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