Taught our kids to dial 911 as soon as they could read numbers but never thought about phones that required a number to get an outside line.
Some systems require a “7” to get an outside line......at least some used to.......
Ouch, do you know how many PBX systems there on in the States? And almost every one of them have to be reprogrammed. Some of them will be simple, but someone will have to come out and touch every single one of them to verify this.
Designer Laws, usually attached to a girl's name, are a regrettable trend. They rely on emotional blackmail of both citizens and legislators. There are far too many laws on the books of cities, states and the federal government as it is. Monuments belong in cemeteries.
The law will protect families
An assertion made without proof. And why only families? What about individuals? What about roommates who are merely friends or acquaintances? Mentioning families is more emotional blackmail.
By making 911 more accessible in buildings with multiple phone lines
But 911 is not being made 'more accessible' (another media cliche). This does nothing to increase the availability of 911 operators or responders - not that such a thing was needed.
Their oldest daughter called 911 for help but all of the calls failed because the phone required her to dial a "9" first. It's a tragedy Kari's family never wants to see happen again.
Um, isn't the 'tragedy' the attack on Kari Hunt by her husband? A failure to successfully call for help is unfortunate but they're putting the cart before the horse here.
After that buildings will have two years to make sure 911 calls 911 without an extra "9" needed.
As before, abysmal writing. Buildings will have two years? Buildings are inanimate objects. They couldn't comply even if they wanted to. Because they are inanimate objects.
With or without Melanie Torre's hacktastic prose, this law is the worst sort of control freakery with the usual fig leaf of DO SOMETHING! And, as usual, government's virtue signaling costs them nothing but compliance by landlords et al will be cumbersome, potentially expensive and almost certainly inconsequential.
This means no more hotel room number 911.
I used to avoid rooms ending in 11 especially 411 as I had on a couple of occasions been awaken by 411 calls in the night. Now I just unplug the hotel phone.
Stop the madness.
That dial 9 business never occurred to me either.
Another 911 story I heard was a child that was told to dial nine-eleven in an emergency and when one arose he was stumped because there was no eleven on the phone.
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The problem comes in multi-floor buildings and campus environments with Voice over IP systems. If you are in building 314 and the company is listed as building 100 you could be dead by the time the first responders find you if the company doesn't have E911 programmed properly. And a lot of companies don't.