Triple-Zero Emergency Number
In Australia, people with an emergency dial "000" on the telephone to call for help. This is similar to the "911" emergency number in the United States.
How It's Used
"After a "statless" grand final last year, Collingwood forward Leon Davis gets his chance at atonement tonight, reports Jake Niall. Leon Davis is treating 2003 as his year of atonement. Whenever toil is required, he casts his mind back to that afternoon of literal and metaphoric darkness: the 2002 grand final. 'I just think about that when it's time to work hard,' said Davis, who admits his failing on that most public stage was difficult to banish from his mind. 'It motivates me more.'
"Davis had the unhappy distinction of not recording a single possession in that epic final match of last year. His stat sheet was truly an emergency number—triple zero. His only measurable contribution to the black and white cause was three tackles. His unexpected opponent, Luke Power, gathered 13 touches." —Jake Niall, "Coming in from the cold," The Age (Australia), April 17, 2003. "Police have praised the actions of a 12-year-old boy who provided clear information to rescuers who saved his mother and younger brother from a flooded creek at Sarina, near Mackay, on Saturday night.
"At about 6.50pm the boy called triple zero and told police his 10-year-old brother and his 40-year-old mother were clinging to trees at the back of their property after the nearby Tara Creek flooded. The pair were retrieved by boat and treated in hospital for exposure." —Kevin Meade, "Floodwaters threaten to break levee," The Australian, January 21, 2008. "A man lying in a bed in the Hobart Private Hospital phoned triple zero to get urgent medical help when no one responded to the nurse call button, a report has revealed.
"The man was in the hospital's high-dependency unit after an operation and woke to find he was bleeding from a wound drain. He rang his bell to obtain assistance from nursing staff, said the Health Complaints Commissioner annual report released yesterday. But after waiting for 10 minutes without a response, the still bleeding man phoned his wife and asked her to phone the nurses' station. That call also went unanswered, the report says. Finally, the man called the emergency triple-zero telephone number before he was treated." —Damien Brown, "Triple-0 fiasco: Bleeding patient calls from hospital bed: Bleeding patient's SOS call," The Hobart Mercury, November 18, 2009.
Also Known As (AKA)
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Beyond eAlmanac
Wikipedia article on the Triple-Zero Emergency Number
Australia's Emergency Call Service Web site on the Triple-Zero Emergency Service
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