How many times have you rang 999?

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

had a bonfire one summer, set fire to neighbours recently creosoted fence
once you dial 999 you can't hang up, it carries on ringing.

and another time, dh fell,

oh and ds friend had peanut allergy

Once when I was driving home from a friend's & found an unconscious man on a grass verge (was just before xmas so freezing & he had no coat on). Turns out he was passed out drunk.

I've rung 3 times for my nan as she gets crippling stomach pains.

I've also rung 111 and had an ambulance sent for my son and I had one called for my from the GP surgery when I had a fit there whilst pregnant.

I’m 48. Never.

Lots, some for my daughter who is a brittle asthmatic and some a child I used to work with who frequently stopped breathing. Last year there was a car vs. motorbike collision outside our house, so called 999 for that. When I was 18 I witnessed a 4 year old knocked down and killed, I called 999 for that too.

Twice that I remember.

1st when my friend took an overdose

2nd when I watched a man walking in the road and he fell backwards. You heard a loud crack when his head hit the road. He stood up, Walked a few more steps, fell and hit his head again. Managed to get him up, he had loads of blood pouring down the back of his head. He was really drunk, he told me he had split up with his wife and wasn't handling it. He died a few weeks later not from that but had to go to an inquest

Twice. Once for my husband who was in terrible pain with his stomach, turned out he had an infection in his gall bladder and had it removed same day. The other time was for my daughter, who at 4 weeks old couldn't breathe properly, emergency responder was with us in what felt like minutes and he managed to clear her airway almost straight away. They think that as she had been laying on her back when she brought up milk, some of it had somehow combined with snot/mucus from her cold and was blocking her airway. Scariest moment of my life watching her trying to draw breath.

20+ times for me medically (all absolutely necessary)

Lots of times to do with work, across elderly care (ambulance mainly, though police for a missing person) and then hospitality (police and fire service mainly in past jobs but ambulance in this one because it's a nicer place 😁)

Once outside of work for a friend who came off her horse and was unconscious.

Me - Never.
Toddler DS rang it once . Mega apology time.

Only once. I was on the phone to delivery suite and they were timing my contractions as I tried to speak to them. They very quickly told me to put the phone down and call 999 as I wasn't going to make it to the hospital in time. Gave birth with the call handler on speaker phone and the paramedics arrived about 20 mins after the baby did.

Had to call an ambulance once for DP when he suddenly collapsed and hit his head, waited for 4 hours but we had no other way of getting to hospital. Called 101 once for loose sheep near a railway line.

Loads of times. I'm a nurse working with older people and barely a week goes by without someone falling over, getting unwell etc.

Once a few years ago on New Years Eve. I was driving home with DH and the kids about 1am from a party when I saw someone had gone straight over a roundabout and the whole car wheel was hanging off and the front windscreen all smashed in a line where he gone under one of the big black and white road signs on the roundabout. The car was completely blocking part of the road around the roundabout. The guy was wandering round the road with loads of blood pouring off his head and being very aggressive. He was also saying not to phone the police Ambulance got there first but didn’t attempt to treat him till the police where there too.

Once.I witnessed an elderly gentleman being hit by a car .

Twice, once at my old job in a hospice and the fire brigade had to be called immediately on hearing the fire alarm and the second time when my husband put a BBQ in the wheelie bin 🙄 the bin and fence had caught alight but by the time the fire brigade came my husband in his superman onesie and crocs had put it out with the hose pipe.

Up until the beginning of last year, I don't recall ever having to call 999 but in 2019 I had to call 999 four times: two calls for an ambulance, one call to the fire brigade and one to the police.

Only once but for two separate things. I was driving and saw a man chasing, the catching & beating another guy. Pulled over to use phone and while I was on a car going the other way slammed brakes on when they saw incident and another car went right into back of them

Once - old lady collapsed outside the shop I worked in as a teen.

DH has been taken to hospital several times via ambulance but the dr doing a home visit has called them each time.

Once for ambulance - for DH. That was recently and they were with us in 3 minutes and he was blue lighted away.

Once for police - when I disturbed a burglar when I came home from work.

Once for fire brigade - a parked car up the road just went up in flames.

Twice. Once to report a robbery in progress and once because there was a fire dangerously close to farmland... Why do you want to know?

Twice both for car accidents, I wasn’t involved in either, just first person on scene.

About four times,

Once when I was a teenager and my dad was beating my mum up.

Second time when I was working as a home care assistant and an elderly gentleman had fallen over in his garden and had a gash up his arm (we HAVE to call paramedics if someone falls as per policy)

Third, was when I was on my day off and I saw an elderly lady had fallen over near a main road,

And lastly a couple of years ago when we got burgled!!

Once last month when my baby 4 months stopped breathing momemteraly he then was struggling for air took 20 mins to get ambulance out and 10.mins to connect call

4 times. There's a problem with lads on scrambler bikes near me, so that twice for that Once I saw a young boy being beaten by a gang on the park. And someone once threw a firework at my bedroom window.