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Regional news and views Call 911 for emergency ; help after January 26 | More than 98,000 teleâ€" phone customers in Waterâ€" loo Region will be able to reach emergency . ambuâ€" lance. fire or police serâ€" vice in minutes when the new 911 emergency numâ€" ber is connected Jan. 26. Originally proposed â€" in 1969 by former Waterioo mayor Don Meston. the emergency â€" number _ has been in the planning and development stage between the region and Bell Canada for the last yearâ€"andâ€"aâ€"half . Coordinators of the three main emergency services that will be linked by the new number are hopeful that the 911 line will shorten the time period between calls for help and emerâ€" gency responses. Callers requiring emerâ€" gency assistance will be able to relay emergency messages to police. fire or ambulance _ services _ by dialing only three digits instead of three separate telephone numbers. Operators at the central emergency answering burâ€" eau in the regional police building. 134 Frederick St.. Kitchener will â€" automatiâ€" cally _ switch â€" emergeney calls over to the main serâ€" vice needed in the area closest to the caller. If the other two emergency serâ€" vices are needed. the operâ€" ators will relay this inforâ€" mation to them. An â€"automatic â€" ringâ€"back system. which is built into the 911 line, will also help the _ emergency _ bureau operators â€" retrace phone calls if callers have failed to provide sufficient inforâ€" mation. ‘"The 911 system will probably be our biggest help where people hang up on us and we don‘t have sufficient â€" information â€" to respond to the call. Now we have no way of getting hold of them." said Wilf Erb. the coordinator of ambulance services for the region. ‘‘An example of how the 911 system will help us ocâ€" 528 Victoria St. 1Â¥ , Kitchener (Beside Weston Bakeries) 745â€"6136. 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He also thinks the sysâ€" tem will provide faster emergency service for mulâ€" tiple calls when all three emergency â€" services â€" are required. ‘"The â€" primary _ service will be notified, but the operator will listen in to the call and then notify other services if they are The â€" single â€" emergency number should also reduce the number of telephone lines carrying emergency calls to the ambulance. fire and police services. ‘‘Right now we have seven lines for emergency ambulance calls. With the 911 system,. it should cerâ€" tainly reduce the number of lines for emergency calls. If we have only one disâ€" patcher on the phones, he will automatically answer the 911 line first," said Mr. Erb. Mr. Erb said the ambuâ€" lance dispatchers will have to be ~rather firm" with People in Waterloo Reâ€" gion will quickly get used to the emergency number he says but some individuâ€" als will probably abuse it at first. Routine calls to book an ambulance for some fuâ€" ture date. personal calls to employees and routine police and fire inquiries should NOT ve made on the 911 line. The 911 number should be reserved excluâ€" sively for emergency calis. callers who use the 911 line for routine matters,. They will be told to call back on the regular telephone line. Routine ambulance service calls should be made on the old 579â€"1010 telephone numâ€" ber in Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo or 621â€"2330 in Cambridge. Routine fire or police calls should also be made on their _ regular _ telephone lines. One of the advantages of the 911 system being installâ€" ed in Waterloo Region is that callers will be able to dial the number free from 854 telephone pay stations in the region. Bell Canada service men will modify all pay stations to allow free 911 calls. beginning Jan. 26. Another advantage to the system is that it immediâ€" ately identifies what area in the region the caller is telephoning from. With this information, the operators can quickly determine which fire or police station to notiâ€" fy. _ Ambulances are cenâ€" trally dispatched from Kitâ€" chenerâ€"Waterloo Hospital. Most Waterloo Region residents will be able to use the 911 system. However, three small areas which get service from the Guelph and Milverton systems will be unable to use the 911 sysâ€" tem. Waterloo Region is the tenth community in Canada and the first region in Onâ€" tario to have the 911 sysâ€" tem. The city of London, the only other area serviced by Bell Canada that has the 911 system, first received WATERLOO EMERGENCY STARTS MONDAY! Q1] emergency answering bureau in the regional police building. Barbara Snider is one of the dispatchers who will answer 911 emergency calls at the ambulance dispatching office after they are relayed by the central Emergency officials in London are more than hapâ€" py with the system, creditâ€" ing it with saving lives and providing faster emergency service. 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