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I immediately tried to call for help. At 3:10 a.m. I dialed 911, over 15 rings and no answer. Thinking that maybe I had dialed in error. I hung up and dialed 911 again. After 20 rings and still no answer, I called the Rappahannock Sheriffs Office. After letting the phone ring for over 10 times, I almost hung up thinking maybe our phone was out or order.
Finally the dispatcher answered and said she would send a deputy. No one ever showed up. My husband managed to help the man get his car off the bank. He came inside and called the Sheriffs Office and told them to forget it. A few minutes later the dispatcher called back and wanted to know which way the man had gone, because they had been looking for him.
This incident concerns me greatly. What if someone had been hurt in this accident? The next morning we found lots of beer cans, some empty, some full, on the bank where the man ended up when he lost control of his car. When he left the scene of the accident, he could have gone further down the road and had another accident in which some one may have been hurt.
Does 911 have “hours” that 1 should be aware of in case I have a “real” emergency. I was under the impression that one should dial 911 in any and all emergencies. What is the Sheriffs Department’s policy for calls at 3 a.m.? No one was hurt, but since I didn’t know exactly what had happened at the time, how could they have known this.
1 was an advocate for the 911 system. We have a business, and the change of address on all our materials and office supplies was time consuming and costly, but I felt it was well worth it for the security that 1 felt we would have with this system in place. All of our phones had the emergency
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