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Originally Posted by Wormius
Can you text to 911 now? For example with gps coordinates of your current location? And if you did, would it go to the same dispatcher that you might be talking to?
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Yes and no. The general public can't text to 911 (yet, at least), but currently (in Calgary) folks who are hard of hearing, deaf, speech impaired or TTY users can register their phone numbers to text with 911 and have it work.
When a registered phone number calls, it's a bit of a cumbersome process, but they text with the same calltakers who would have answered the phone, just as if they had called.
This is COC's (pretty brief) page about the service:
https://www.calgary.ca/CSPS/PSC/Page...ith-9-1-1.aspx
That page also has a link to register your phone number for the service:
https://www.textwith911.ca/en/home/