Thank you. It was a very long response time unfortunately too bc the crew covering was on the other side of town and it was 4 am, and the 2nd emt was brand new. Poor guy. They came to the funeral and I gave them both huge hugs (dad worked for the town so the paramedic knew him). It can be very frustrating and I have our hometown non emergency line programmed in because of the routing just in case, but we needed police this fall and they responded really quickly which I felt was a good sign. The town also built a huge new fire/medic facility a couple years after my dad passed and the team is much bigger now, which I'm grateful for for other families. <3

Glad I didn't imagine the 4 digit dialing 😅

We had a rotary phone in the kitchen for ages in my parents house. My mother only finally got rid of it because dialing 911 took too long on it when my dad passed (2008).

Yes! 508 came before 978 right? I'm trying to remember. (82 baby)

Lol I remember being a kid and my parents telling me we had to start dialing "the whole number" so instead of 1234 we had to dial 448 1234. Then 978 came 😆 We spent a lot of time in rural mountains in western maine so there's a chance I'm combining memories of having to add the 864 to the 1234 too idk I'm 40 it's all mushy in my brain now