I'll swear, soon the police and emergency operators will know our number
by heart...
Not only have we called them this week on the usual suspicious activity,
but also twice this weekend for other things.
So on Saturday, my wife comes home, and sees a dog running around in
the parking lot. A beautiful Siberian Husky. It had a collar, but no
name tag. Very friendly, and in really good shape. So we called our
neighbor, to ask if there's anyone living here with a Husky. But it
didn't seem so. No-one here has one.
So she called the police department again. When she says she has
caught a Husky, the operator tells her to hold on. When he comes
back on, he asks if the dog responds to Nikolai. And sure enough
it did. Turns out, the owner was at the police station right at that
same time.
So the owner and the dog were united again.
Then, on Saturday, I'm looking out the living room window. It certainly
looked like fire on the mountain side all the way across town. Plumes
of smoke coming, and it's a state park, so there should be no dwellings
there either. But it didn't really seem that bad.
Then the night falls, and then you can actually see the flames, and
patches of the mountainside engulfed. And it looked like it was getting
worse, not better.
So I called 911. First of all a question - is it normal here that when
you have a fire, you get patched on to the fire department operator?
Because that's what happened. I was just thinking about the recent 911
thread, and since I have phone via the cable company. Although if I
remember correctly even the first operator did say "Haverstraw", so that
would mean it was the local 911 operator. And the cable company has
been running ads that their 911 calls go to the same operator as land
lines.
I was just wondering how come the first operator, couldn't handle the
emergency call. But in any case it did seem to work, so that was the
test.
Oh yeah, so it turned out that park rangers were already battling the
fire when I called.
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