Some 911 calls dialed by residents of Salt Lake City and Sandy soon may be answered by something like a robot, powered by artificial intelligence. Faced with chronic understaffing among the ranks of ...

Fairfax County, Virginia, is testing the use of artificial intelligence to triage nonemergency 911 calls, with the hope of getting residents and visitors experiencing an urgent situation through to a ...

WESTFIELD, Ind. — Some central Indiana residential care facilities could soon begin to be billed for making non-emergency 911 calls. A new ordinance approved by the Westfield City Council has ...

Dozens of 911 calls were tied to the "Alligator Alcatraz" immigrant detention camp between June and August. Notable incidents included an arrest warrant for a guard and reports of a woman ...

NAPLES, Fla. — When an emergency happens in Collier County, Florida, the 911 calls go to one of the most high-tech communications centers in the U.S., where callers can send text and video from the ...

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The water level in the rain-swollen Guadalupe River was rising fast and the man calling the emergency dispatcher from a flooded home in the Texas Hill Country sounded desperate. “No place for us to go ...

A dangerous bug is reportedly affecting Pixel 10 phones, where 911 emergency calls connect but the audio is a garbled mess of electronic noises. This serious flaw prevents users from communicating ...