If you live in Taipei, I will suggest you just call “1999”. It’s a 24 hours line made by city government and it’s very effeciency. They help everything. My sister tried to call them to complain about our noisy neighbor in the mid-night. The police comes in 10 minutes only.
We taiwanese always be nice for foreigner. I’m sure you can make it in 5 minutes.
Richard Quest was on about this on CNN this morning, something about business travel and hotel security…He maintained that the 112 number would work on a cell that was locked, without a SIM and out of range of your service provider. His point was, that in an emergency situation, any cell phone, even if not your own, becomes a useful tool for rescue. He didn’t go into details about how it all worked, but he was advocating it…Of course, the first thing I was tempted to do was to take out my SIM card and give it a try; didn’t though… :aiyo:
112 is the international emergency number. And yes, it is supposed to work even if you have no SIM but there are couple of countries where you do need a SIM.
Hello all, it would be great to find a telephone number/email where we can report brush fires up on Yangmingshan. Allegedly we heard that is supposed to be illegal to start fires, but many houses along Yong Gong Road burn trash piles all of the time and it really puts smoke pollution over the city. Not to mention, some of these idiots actually burn plastic items in the garden trash piles and then light them up with kerosene to get them started in the rain. Kind of amusing to see the heavy smoke clouds pass over and around the Police Station but apparently the police do not notice.
I started a new thread because I thought we weren’t supposed to gravedig.
Important info can hardly be relied on if it’s from 2005 or even 2012.
Anyway, no one needing info doesn’t need to read all that old info about emergency numbers unless they are interested in the history which would probably be a separate thread. Jus’ sayin’.
Seeing as this has resurrected, if you are not sure where you are or are unable to communicate your location clearly to emergency services just tell them the number on the nearest lamp post, each one is individually numbered (at least in Taipei/New Taipei) and the service you call can easily get your location from the number.