{"id":170,"date":"2007-02-08T09:42:22","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T09:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/170"},"modified":"2014-04-17T11:00:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T10:00:42","slug":"emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/170","title":{"rendered":"Emergency!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you need an ambulance while on holiday in the Algarve, what number do you call. If you see a fire in a EuroCamp, how do you contact <em>les sapeurs-pompiers<\/em>? If your wallet mysteriously disappears in Barcelona, how do you ring the <em>Guardia Civil<\/em>? (even though they couldn&#8217;t help you)<\/p>\n<p>The answer is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos112.info\/\">surprisingly simple<\/a>, <strong>DIAL 112<\/strong>, but not well known. Since 1991 this has been the standard emergency number in Europe <strong>including Britain<\/strong>. All the countries have their local numbers but, in theory they will be phased out. I can&#8217;t imagine 999 going out of use in a hurry!<\/p>\n<p>112 is also the international emergency number on GSM mobile phones, though not other networks.<\/p>\n<p>Many countries accept the well known emergency numbers for other states as well. e.g. New Zealand&#8217;s national number is 111 but they accept 000 for the Australians, 999 for the British, 911 for the Americans and now 112 for Europeans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you need an ambulance while on holiday in the Algarve, what number do you call. If you see a fire in a EuroCamp, how do you contact les sapeurs-pompiers? If your wallet mysteriously disappears in Barcelona, how do you ring the Guardia Civil? (even though they couldn&#8217;t help you) The answer is surprisingly simple, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2037,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/2037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}