If 999 doesn’t answer: what you can do yourself in an emergency

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If emergency services don’t answer, what then? Imagine: there’s a fire in your kitchen, smoke fills the room and you call 999. The phone rings. And rings. And rings. Nobody answers. This summer this happened nearly 17,000 times in East Flanders alone – nearly a quarter of all emergency calls went unanswered due to staff … Read more