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School evacuated as boy takes grenade to show-and-tell (www.bbc.com)

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[–] PbNews@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Sorry I'm a foreign I know 911 is for the police what is 999 for exactly??

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 day ago

[–] spizzat2@lemm.ee 22 points 1 day ago

I don't know. Personally, I would have called 0118999881999119725... 3

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Believe it or not, also the police. Just in a different country.

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

It's the British equivalent.
In the US people dial 911, in the UK it's 999

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Police, fire, ambulance, coastguard, mountain rescue.

Then the police phone the Ministry of Defence who send a disposal team.

999 is the original. 911 didn’t come along until 30 years later.

[–] AscendantSquid@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

I think it's for the police in the Britains