Emergency numbers

[Primus]

Zootyfruit, 911 is now an international emergency number for US citizens anywhere in the world, and maybe the same is for 999 and UK citizens...

BTW, emergency numbers all around the world:
http://www.911dispatch.com/web_graphic/graphic1.html
http://www.american-firefighter.com/questions/911.php
http://www.aber.ac.uk/safety-environment/docs/public/emerg_nos_worldwide.pdf

By countries/regions:
http://www.911dispatch.com/911_file/mobilenumbers.html
http://www.travel.com.hk/china/shanghai/emergenc.htm
http://www.cebitbilisim.com/top-istanbul_emergency.html

This is not to finish this thread: it's just for a few extra info!

[Femme Stab Mode >:D]

I live in Australia, but I still remember Russian emergency numbers.

Fire Brigade - 001

Police (Miliciya, haha) - 002

Ambulance - 003

Leaking Gas - 004

[Damien]

Here in Croatia:

92 - police
93 - ambulance
94 - fire dept.

[SSH]

112 works in the UK, too. And to find the police number, you have to get a phone book or yellow pages.... they were thinking of having a common number for this but the ojne they chose was wrong or something...

[Kinoko]

Where are you from, Zooty?

[Sam.]

i'm in the good old united kingdom.

[Andail]

112, like the rest of EU.

Which is pretty neat, because it used to be 90 000.

I don't really care, since I never had any reason to dial it, but I can very well imagine the frustration some people must have felt.

"Hurry up! My wheelchair is on fire!"
"I just have two more 0:s to dial, hold on!"

[Phemar]

South Africa: 107 (or 701, not sure...)

Dial it and cops, fire brigade and ambulance will trace the call and be at your place in no less than 2 hours! (if you're lucky...)

[Raggit]

911 for me. 

[Gregjazz]

In China it's also 999.

I figure it's 911 in America so there's less chance some drunk person will dial it, or get accidentally button-mashed on a cell phone.

[Privateer Puddin']

did they have cell phones when 911 was set up?

[kl4Uz]

112 - firefighters
113 - cops
114 - emergency (red cross)

[Gilbert]

999 here, that's because we followed British convention, it's 911 or 119 or whatever I don't know in the mainland though.

[m0ds]

In the UK, we have 999 and 112. Both go through to the same style switchboard (for all emergency services).

And that's it.

Both are dialable even when you're mobile keypad is locked.

[Gilbert]

I'm not sure but had once heard that 112 is an international emergency number, that is, whereever you are, and disregard of the phone network you're using, dialing 112 would have you connected to the nearest related authority.

Don't know if that's true though.

[Esseb]

In Norway:

110 - Fire
112 - Police
113 - Medical Emergencies

I've always wondered what 111 is.

Oh, and my phone book says 1412 is the emergency number for text telephone users, how handy (not meant as a joke, in case any Germans are reading this).

[goldenmonkey]

In Aus it is 000 on normal phones but I'm not sure from mobiles, I have a feeling it's 112, but I've never tried. but this isn't common knowledge so it's pretty silly.

any aussie's (without actually pressing call), type the number 112 on your mobile phone when it's locked and it will allow you to make the call, it doesn't work with 000 when locked.

What phone do you have? I'm in australia and my phone allows me to push both 112 and 000 when locked, which is stupid because it has done it in my pocket before.
Isn't 112 some sort of international emergency number?

[Lazy Z]

In Greece it's:

100 - Police
166 - Medical Emergencies

and I keep forgetting the Firefighers one, hope I won't have to use it soon . And both numbers are dialable when your cell's keypad is locked.