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Background Information on for Presenters To assist you in making an effective presentation, we provide the following most commonly asked questions about Nine-one-one is the number to call to get help in a police, fire or medical emergency. A call is transmitted over dedicated phone lines to the answering point closest to the caller.

Trained personnel then send emergency help as needed. Location information is not yet available for calls made from cellular phones or when rural callers have only a route and box number for an address.

Each household or business pays a small monthly fee for service on each telephone line which appears on their phone bill. This is a separate ambulance charge, not a charge. Nine-one-one is only to be used in emergency situations. If you are ever in doubt, call If you call by mistake, do not hang up. A prank call is when someone calls for a joke, or calls and hangs up. Prank calls not only waste time and money, but they can also be dangerous.

If lines or call takers are busy with prank calls, someone with a real emergency may not be able to get the help they need. In some communities, it is considered illegal to make prank calls. Dial 9, then 1 and 1 again. It is a free call. You can use any kind of phone — push button, rotary, cellular, cordless or pay phones some pay phones may require coins to get a dial tone. When necessary, the call taker can often add an interpreter or other language line service for translation.

A non-English speaking caller may hear a short conversation in English and some clicking sounds as an interpreter is added to the call. Communication centers which answer calls have special text telephones for responding to calls from hearing or speech impaired callers.

Due to the rapidly changing technology, there are no standard set of instructions that can be applied uniformly to all models of wireless telephones. Please pay special attention to the information in the section highlited"Notes. This is especially true with wireless phones for the following reasons:. NOTE: Wireless telephone handsets and procedures for making a call differ between models and manufactures.

It is strongly suggested that children be instructed to discuss with their parents how to dial calls from the wireless telephone they own or use.

Children should be made aware of special function keys or speed dial features and all steps involved in making a call. If you receive a busy signal, hang up and call again. NOTE: Children should be advised to listen carefully to what happens after they dial. Due to the number of calls received from wireless telephones, calls sometimes get a busy signal or a recorded message before the call is answered by a live operator.

Presenters should explain to children what to do if this occurs. For younger children, presenters may want to demonstrate the sound of a busy signal and give examples of the recorded message they might hear.

One example of a recorded message is: "You have reached emergency services. All operators are busy taking calls. Please stay on the line and your call will be answered by the first available call taker. NOTE: As a matter of policy, if the center receives the call back number on disconnect, an operator will attempt to call back to determine if there is a true emergency.

Stress to the children that it is better to stay on the phone and tell the operator that they accidentally called Eliminating the need for call back saves valuable call taker time for other emergency calls. Accidentally dialed calls, particularly from certain models of wireless phones, have become a huge problem for communication centers.

In fact, one handset model will automatically dial if the "9" key is depressed for more than two seconds. These calls are generated without pressing the send key. Anyone playing with the key pad or even hesitating while dialing a number that starts with a "9" can make an unintentional call.

Other models have preprogrammed emergency buttons that can also be activated accidentally. When a center receives the caller identification with these calls, they attempt a call back to determine if there is an emergency. Answering these inadvertant calls and making the necessary calls back take valuable time that could keep operators from being available for true emergency calls.

Wireless Quick Facts. All rights reserved. Red E. Athletes and Entertainers for Kids. Program Lesson Plan Helpful Hints for Your Classroom Presentation If you are not the classroom teacher, ask him or her to stay in the room during the presentation. You may want to ask for their assistance in running the program. Ask the class to put on their "listening caps" and pay close attention so that they can answer some easy questions at the end of the presentation.

Explain that there will be a reward for good listening and good behavior. Be sure to follow through with the materials included in your classroom kit. Encourage children to raise their hands to volunteer to answer questions or give comments. Always praise good behavior. If a child is not cooperative, you may ask them to sit near the teacher or move to a quiet area away from the other children.

What You will need Approximately 30 minutes is needed to show the tape and answer questions. Allow 10 to 15 minutes more for follow-up activities or additional questions. That's OK. The emergency operators who answer the phone talk to a lot of people, including adults, who are nervous or worried when they call. And they are used to talking to kids. Just stay as calm as you can. If you talk too fast, the operator may have trouble understanding what's wrong and what kind of help you need.

NEVER call as a joke or just to see what might happen. When the emergency operator has to take the time to talk to people who don't have a real emergency, other people who call and do need help right away might have to wait.



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