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Code purple: medical emergency. Code red: fire. Code yellow: internal emergency. MET call: a medical emergency that is not cardiac or respiratory arrest. Code pink: a mother is going into labor unexpectedly, or there is a newborn medical emergency. VICTORIA Australia. Emergencies (Public Hospital services)
106 – emergency number in Australia for textphone/TTY; 108 – emergency number in India (22 states) 110 – emergency number mainly in China, Japan, Taiwan; 111 – emergency number in New Zealand; 112 – emergency number across the European Union and on GSM mobile networks across the world; 119 – emergency number in Jamaica and parts of Asia
In the United States, response codes are used to describe a mode of response for an emergency unit responding to a call. They generally vary but often have three basic tiers: Code 3: Respond to the call using lights and sirens. Code 2: Respond to the call with emergency lights, but without sirens. Alternatively, sirens may be used if necessary ...
000 Emergency, [ 1] also known as Triple Zero[ 1] or Triple 0, [ 2] and sometimes stylised Triple Zero (000), [ 1] is the primary national emergency telephone number in Australia [ 1] and Australian External Territories. The Emergency Call Service is operated by Telstra, and overseen by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA ...
111 (usually pronounced one-one-one) is the emergency telephone number in New Zealand. It was first implemented in Masterton and Carterton on 29 September 1958, and was progressively rolled out nationwide with the last exchanges converting in 1988. About 870,000 111 calls are made every year, and the police introduced a new number (105) in 2019 ...
The emergency number 111 was adopted in New Zealand in 1955 and was first implemented in Masterton and Carterton in September 1958. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] New Zealand telephones had their rotary dials numbered in reverse to most of the world; going anticlockwise from the finger stop, New Zealand phones were numbered 9876543210 rather than 1234567890.
UHF CB (Australia): Emergency channels 5/35 (476.525/477.275 MHz). [17] Channel 5 is the designated simplex and repeater output emergency channel, while channel 35 is used as the repeater input frequency for duplex operation. UHF CB is only available in Australia and New Zealand.
Appearance. Emergency medical services in New Zealand (more commonly known as Ambulance) are provided by the Order of St John, except in the Greater Wellington region where Wellington Free Ambulance provides these services. Both have a history of long service to their communities, St John since 1885 and Free beginning in 1927, traditionally ...