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Slick roads caused by a winter storm pummeling the Great Lakes area led to a box truck smashing into multiple emergency vehicles along Michigan's Interstate 94 Thursday morning.
"My heart goes out to all those affected by tonight’s severe weather," Whitmer said around 8 p.m. Tuesday, as she declared a state of emergency for southwest Michigan.
Several tornadoes hit Michigan on Tuesday, with one twister pummeling a mobile home park in the southern part of the state, leaving a dozen people hurt and rescuers looking for more possible victims.
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111 – emergency number in New Zealand; 112 – emergency number across the European Union and on GSM mobile networks across the world; 119 – emergency number in Jamaica and parts of Asia; 122 – emergency number for specific services in several countries; 911 – emergency number in North America and parts of the Pacific; 999 – emergency ...
The first use of a national emergency telephone number began in the United Kingdom in 1937 using the number 999, which continues to this day. [6] In the United States, the first 911 service was established by the Alabama Telephone Company and the first call was made in Haleyville, Alabama, in 1968 by Alabama Speaker of the House Rankin Fite and answered by U.S. Representative Tom Bevill.
Enhanced 911 (E-911 or E911) is a system used in North America to automatically provide the caller's location to 911 dispatchers. 911 is the universal emergency telephone number in the region. In the European Union, a similar system exists known as E112 (where 112 is the emergency access number) and known as eCall when called by a vehicle.
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