How many times have you rang 999?

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Only once when I was about 8 for a bit of a joke.

Three times:

When my mum collapsed with a brain haemorrhage
When a car was on fire
When I witnessed a motorcycle vs car accident. Turned out only minor injuries to the motorcyclist thankfully, looked worse than it was.

Loads. Things often happen when I am around! Lots of police incidents (have always been great) lots of ambulances (same) and once the fire brigade (also great). Never needed the coastguard though... touch wood.

Once when I found my house had been broken in to. Got told off for ringing 999 as it wasn't currently in progress and told to ring 111.

I think about 8 times over my life for different reasons.
Twice in one week recently. Found an unresponsive man lying in the street and the next day for a car fire over the road.

Once. I was on the phone to 111 during my miscarriage when the call handler heard me vomiting and struggling to breath. She told me to hang up and call an ambulance. I woke up in hospital a day later.

Once. Our neighbour was in the street screaming and crying.
She had come home with her two kids and found her husband (early 30’s) in cardiac arrest in bed.
2 days of chest pain, seen by GP told it was indigestion.
I jumped over the adjoining fence, raced up the stairs while my gran dialled 999.
He had been dead for a very long time. He worked night shifts and had gone to bed that morning so she took the kids out.
Saddest day.
Paramedics were fantastic despite not being able to do anything.

Once I think (I can’t remember whether it was 999 or 111 but paramedics somehow turned up).

Once when PIL got broken into. They were away on holiday and we'd been away on a separate holiday. We got back at 10pm-ish and went to check on their house at 1am. It was a complete state.

We walked round downstairs and DP noticed the knives were all gone from the knife block.

We didn't know if anyone was still there and weren't taking that risk.

Police came in about 2 mins and were absolutely fantastic.

More times than I care to count.

My mum was an alcoholic (she passed away in 2018.)
The last time I called 999 was an ambulance for her when she'd overdosed and drunk herself in to oblivion.
She died that night.

(Depressing, I know. Apologies!)

About 20 or so times but I'm a care worker and have looked after multiple elderly relatives.

The vast majority have been as part of my job as clients often have falls etc, but I did ring one for ds when he had a serious chest infection when was 18 months old and his temperature was sky high, his lips were going blue, he was unresponsive and unrousable.

They ended up putting him on oxygen in the ambulance as his sats were in his boots, keeping him in overnight and giving him an inhaler and iv paracetamol as his temp wasn't coming down.

He was fine a week later.

That was fucking terrifying though.

Twice. Once for a fire a few kids had started on the park. Once when I found a naked 4 year old with special needs running across the main road.

Oh to add, I've only ever called 999 for my mum (mixture of ambulance and police.)

Never had to call for any other reason!

Twice, once for an ambulance when a driver failed to stop on a zebra crossing and hit a pedestrian and once for the fire brigade for a house fire next door.

Four times that I can think of, but more will probably come to mind. Once for my mother for a respiratory condition, once for me (DV), once when a hillside suddenly caught fire and once for a young woman who collapsed in the street and hit her head on a stone cill as she fell. The last one was so upsetting as it transpired she was terminally ill. I asked a passer by to help but she said she was too busy.

Loads, I have brittle asthma, as does DD.

Once - I had to phone the police as my brother's friend was trying to throw himself under passing vehicles on a main road; granted it's not hugely busy as rural but given the time of night it was, it was dark & quite a few lorries & milk tankers pass along it. As much as we didn't want him harmed we needed help to stop him.

Two times when my dc has a seizure, once when my other dc had a seizure.

Once for a car crash of someone else on the motorway.

Phoned 101 (is it 101?) a few times, once when my neighbour was really screaming at his wife and banging the door and another when I seen a man on the motorway walking along :S

Four from memory;
Fire brigade because of thick smoke coming from the small wooded area near home.
Fire brigade at 3am when our smile alarm was set off by a fire in the house next door.
Police to report a big fight in Kilburn as DP and I were driving along.
Police to report an obstruction in the middle of Park Lane, which there was no way could be moved without stopping all the traffic. (That was in the days before 101 - or at least before I knew of it.)

Once for drunk guy insisting he lived in my house, the police turned up and asked why I wouldn’t let him in. .... because he’s not mine??

Twice same night for terminally ill relative who was fitting.

Once when drug addicts who lived downstairs were kicking off. I’ve since moved.

Once when I saw a man breaking into a neighbours house, police were there v quickly, caught him down the road and she got her things back.

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Three times for the police- twice when I lived at my mums and once when I lived in London. Ambulance- I've lost count. Three times for me at least for asthma attacks, too many to count for my eldest (pre-existing and sometimes needs to get to hospital very fast).

@GrumpySausage hopefully it never happens again but if it does just say you think someone might still be in the house.

They sent police to us straight away (as you'd expect). They left about 2am and forensics were there by 8:30.

Once when my house was on fire

More times than I would have cared to. DP and DS both have epilepsy amd I have dialled 999 for both of them, many times for DS. DD2 also has complex disabilities/ health needs and for a while she had a tracheostomy and called 999 several times when her SATs dropped and oxygen wasn’t helping. Also had it called for me once as a teen following a suicide attempt.