It was becoming really challenging to take every call so we tweeted a message saying please only call 999 in an emergency.
Chief Justice John Roberts peppered Verrilli with questions about how the law compelling everybody to buy health insurance was different than a law requiring people to buy cellular phones so they can call 911 in an emergency, or broccoli.
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In January, officers received an emergency call about an assault in Soho, in central London.
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"This is the biggest movement of corporate generosity we have ever had for an emergency call in terms of the amounts given, " Pascal Freneaux of Medecins Sans Frontieres told Reuters.
Nevertheless, the creation of Galileo and the improvements to GPS open up all sorts of intriguing possibilities: people prone to heart attacks, or the frail elderly, could wear small and highly accurate locator devices combined with body sensors, which could call medical help in an emergency.
Frank Gribbon, an FDNY spokesman, says the department hasn't had access to call times since the city's fire and police departments' emergency call centers began merging in 2008.
Dylan Bishop, 30, was answering phones at an emergency call center in Edmond, Okla.
Mr Bartlett said patients were advised to call their GP in non-emergency cases and follow the answering machine message if the surgery was closed.
In New York City, for example, when you dial 911, that call will go to the emergency service center in New York City.
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The trust asked people to only call for an ambulance in a "genuine emergency".
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Before dawn on Tuesday, officers responding to an emergency call at a house in the community of Ladera Ranch, about 30 miles (48km) south of Los Angeles, found a female victim dead from multiple gunshot wounds, Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino told the BBC.
The selloff in bond markets forced leaders to call an emergency summit for July 21.
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If they are unable to provide this, governments would call a national emergency, forcing gas suppliers in neighbouring countries to step in to assist demand.
The Primary Care Company said it was working to recruit a specialist emergency consultant in response to the call for one in the report.
His first emergency budget in July followed a telephone call from the German chancellor, Angela Merkel.
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Cracknell, who has not raced since the Athens Olympics, answered an emergency call from coach Jurgen Grobler to race in the Head of the River Fours race.
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She had to wait an hour by a pay phone to find someone who wanted to use it, and in his case, it was an emergency call.
The funeral of a police officer who died in a road crash while responding to an emergency call has been held.
Subscribers get a wallet-sized card and, in case of an emergency, a hospital will call DocuBank, which will fax over the information.
The organisation representing British doctors has written to NHS bosses to call for a delay in the launch of a new non-emergency telephone advice line.
Similar to the predecessor, the phone features a panic button on the back that'll call and text message up to five people in the case of an emergency.
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There were particularly pointed Clinton campaign ads asking voters who they would want in the White House to an answer an emergency phone call at 3 a.m.
To complicate matters, only 77% of 911 call centers are in compliance with the wireless locating technology, according to the National Emergency Number Association, a public safety industry group.
VIVOplay allows children to easily reach their parents when they need to and lets parents call their children and track their child's location in the event of an emergency with a simple, custom-designed smartphone app.
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The call is part of a three-point plan it wants to discuss in an "emergency summit" of social landlords.
Dr. Prabhakar Reddy is an emergency room doctor in Bangalore, an Indian boomtown known for its call centers and software factories.
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