911 response time may not be as impressive as you think
Today my wife was off so we went dropping off HG at the daycare together by jogging along the canal nearby. On the way we found a water blowing out from the ground like a fountain, which clearly seemed not good. We passed by without doing anything at the moment, however, since we were on the other side of the canal, but on the way back after 20 minutes, nothing was changed. So we decided to be good citizens and called some non emergency numbers, with none of which we got to talk to an agent in a few minutes with each number. Feeling still motivated enough, we ended up calling 911 hoping it wouldn't interfere any actual critical cases. The call was handled by an answering machine, for way more than 5 minutes at minimum before we finally got to talk to an agent. More than 5 minutes. According to self-defense-mind-body-spirit.com , the average policy response time is 10 minutes as I later found. Independent Journal Review website has detail and analysis. By "average policy re