San Jose has approved a new first responder and vehicle collision fee program as medical-only calls make up 62% of the fire department's incident responses.
In bad country they charge you money just to come to the scene of an accident.
This article is badly written; i think it’s talking about the fire dept having to respond to “medical only” 911 calls.
I have a bit of real world experience with this being misused (lack of social services a whole other convo but read on). My slowly dying, often confused, and always stubborn uncle would routinely fall out of his chair and call 911 because he couldn’t get back up. Two or 3 times a week towards the end. Once he called them twice in one day.
This is probably to address that.
Not saying it’s justified, in fact it fucking sucks, but this is likely what the article is referencing, not charging people who call 911 for emergency response.
In bad country they charge you money just to come to the scene of an accident.
If I’m in San Jose and I see a car accident and I call 911 - they’re going to charge me? I did a ctrl-f for “witness” - zero results.
yeah the real question is who gets the charge, and then how the fuck do they plan on collecting it?
In the case of a car accident they want to charge the car insurance company. Get ready to get your rates adjusted.
This article is badly written; i think it’s talking about the fire dept having to respond to “medical only” 911 calls.
I have a bit of real world experience with this being misused (lack of social services a whole other convo but read on). My slowly dying, often confused, and always stubborn uncle would routinely fall out of his chair and call 911 because he couldn’t get back up. Two or 3 times a week towards the end. Once he called them twice in one day.
This is probably to address that.
Not saying it’s justified, in fact it fucking sucks, but this is likely what the article is referencing, not charging people who call 911 for emergency response.
I’m speaking from ignorance but life experience tells me they will attempt to charge someone at the scene