Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Tue, 23 Apr 91 16:03:26 EDT From: Winston Lawrence Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: New Phone Numbers for NYC Fire Department Message-ID: Organization: The Dorsai Diplomatic Mission Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 303, Message 2 of 13 Lines: 18 In the HELLO pamphlet that NYNEX sends with its phone bill came the following: To report a fire in New York City, call: (212) 999-2222 (Manhattan), (212) 999-3333 (Bronx), (718) 999-4444 (Brooklyn), (718) 999-5555 (Queens), and (718) 999-6666 for Staten Island. or call 911. The 999 prefix immediately caught my eye as this is (or was) the number that every schoolkid and up in London knew as the emergency services number. Is this a new variation on 911 being started up here? When I tried 999-xxxx the call was immediately halted with a recording saying that the number was incorrectly dialed (this is from Long Island area code 516). Dialing only three digits of any other combination results in a looong timeout.