How many times have you rang 999?

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

5 times
Ambulance- friend unconscious and totally unable to wake her when very drunk
Ambulance- son who was 10 months wasnt breathing (convulsion)
Ambulance - same son - 2 yo wasnt breathing (convulsion)
Police- someone breaking into our house
Police- someone breaking into our house

3 I think

Ambulance when I found a girl trying to jump off a bridge into a river. We had to pretty much sit on her to stop her until they arrived

Police when a man was beating up his girlfriend outside my house

Firefighters when I set fire to my kitchen at uni 😳

3 times? Prem Labour with DTs- DH was ready to take me but waiting for someone to come to mind ds1- Dts born in hospital about an hour later.

DS 1 choking.
DS2 stopped breathing

Countless ambulance rides but only called as above I think.....

Way too many..for accidents witnessed on road as flat overlooks busy road, asthma/croup for kids, several times as a community nurse

Reading through this thread makes me very grateful I live in the UK, I've lived abroad for several years and there's no way in those countries emergency services would come to all this in a timely manner.
My son not breathing x 2 had ambulances arrive within 3 minutes on both occasions. I dont know how they did it

Once. DM had terminal cancer. She'd had a stent fitted to allow her to eat but had been starving for weeks. She I advisedly guzzled some of my dinner instead of her puree. She was in horrific pain unable to digest it. I didn't know what else to do.

Twice: once when I saw kids messing about on the roof of a dangerously derelict building, and again when I saw a large group of people walking back down a slip road to rejoin the motorway (there was no breakdown in sight)

Both times the police seemed vastly more bothered about my name, address, phone number, inside leg measurement and mother's maiden name than they were with the immediate high-risk incidents I was trying to report

Never.

A handful of times.

A child was knocked over by a car just outside my house.

Found a person unresponsive at the bus stop.

Heard what sounded like someone screaming for help from the park behind my house (had young kids with me so I couldn't investigate myself).

Luckily, when my husband had a brain haemorrhage he was fully conscious afterwards and phoned 111 himself, and they sent an ambulance.

I've also phoned the police non-emergency line numerous times, for things like kids setting off fireworks.

Loads:

• fight on a tram
• tram on fire
• couple fighting in the street
• car hitting a bollard and failing to stop (suspected DUI)
• for DS when he was showing signs of meningitis (false alarm)
• for DS when his breathing sounded awful (turned out to be croup)

Several times.

Twice when I worked in the town centre upon arrival at work to discover that people had set the bins on fire behind the shop.
Once for a bloke who was passed out drunk in the middle of the back lane behind the shop. A colleague helped to rouse him enough to move him to the wall and police arrived to escort him home. He was very well known for drunk and disorderly offences.
Once when a stolen car was abandoned and set alight in the set of garages near my home.
Once when a former resident of a house opposite ours went mad and set fire to it after being evicted and losing custody of her children- the house was stuffed from floor to ceiling with crap and rubbish and paper and luckily only the outbuilding caught fire.
Once when I saw a man hit by a car at a crossing in town. He was badly injured, 3 of us went to help him and he had to be helicoptered to the nearest neuro specialist unit.
Once when a woman was hammering our door down, saying she was being chased through the estate by a man in a mask wielding a baseball bat. We let her in and called the police who came and dealt with her and the whole odd situation.

Too many times to remember, unfortunately all for my daughter and all needed.

Twice. Once because a woman was being attacked & I couldn't help her otherwise. Once because my neighbour fell down the concrete stairs in our block of flats.

Due to my job, more times that I can remember

A few times. From the ones I remember

• once when I was in London with a friend and we witnessed a hit and run
• once when my Granda was dying at home (unexpectedly)
• once when a group of boys were running around smashing up cars in our street
• and I spoke to the call handler when I helped a guy having what I thought was a stroke, after the phone was passed to me.

Actually that last call really annoyed me, after relaying all the guys signs and symptoms the call handler said they’d transfer the info to NHS24 and arrange a call back as it wasn’t an emergency. It wasn’t until I repeated that the gentleman was FAST positive and needed an ambulance ASAP as his condition had deteriorated in the time I’d been on the phone that they stopped to listen.

More times than I can count. I have had a lot of emergencies personally, but also seem to end up in a surprising number of situations where I'm the only person able to phone ambulances or less often the police in emergencies for complete strangers or minor acquaintances.

Twice. Once a man collapsed outside Liverpool Street staton. He was absolutely steaming and I don't think I'll ever forget the crack his head made as he hit the deck.

Second was when my ring doorbell camera out the back caught a man in our garden. He'd come from the back of the garden over the fence and left through our side gate. He wasn't a burglar, just a very confused elderly man who had escaped from the assisted living house behind us. They hadn't noticed he'd gone missing and we only spotted the footage about half an hour after it happened.

3 times I think - one work related, the others at home - all ambulance service calls

Loads. I work in mental health.

A few times as well for two of my children when they were young.

Once... When I was due to give birth and started bleeding... rang delivery suite who said I must arrive via ambulance in case of complications on way

Three times - once for a boyfriend who rapidly became very ill with a severe headache (turned out to be viral meningitis); once to report a tree that fell across a main railway line as I was walking past; and once when a friend's psycho hosebeast of a wife (now ex, thankfully) rang me from the other side of the country to tell me she was going to kill herself. The latter was a stunt to get her husband to go home from work, but I wasn't going to take the risk because she had a young baby with her.

Once when I found my DGM in bed having a suspected stroke. She was blue lighted and never came home 😞

Couple of times due to my mum having a MH episode and once when I was about to give birth on my nans sofa this was because the midwife was adamant I was still only 2cm 🙈she had a shock when I arrived 13mins later with a head between my legs 😂

A few🙄 I work in a pupil referral unit in a deprived area and unfortunately it comes with the job.

Never. I am on the receiving end of all your 999 calls though!