A single prank call can delay emergency response—and cost someone their life. This is the urgent warning from the Pangasinan Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) amid the ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of the Interior and Local Government said the systems upgrade done in September to the DILG Unified 911 Hotline has drastically reduced the number of prank and ...

The call came in just before midnight: a young man’s voice, somewhat rattled, telling a 911 operator he’d just seen a man streaked with blood on the side of a country road, staring back blankly in the ...