Crime & Safety
Text-to-911 Service Quickly Gets Help to Rochester Hills Man
The Oakland County Sheriff's Office, which has the second-busiest dispatch center in the state, began offering text-to-911 service in 2015.
Rochester Hills, MI — A Rochester Hills man who has difficulty hearing used the Oakland County Sheriff's Office's text-to-911 service to report an oven fire at his residence about 7:45 p.m. on the night of June 29.
The Rochester Hills Fire Department was dispatched to the man's residence on the 3800 block of Dearborn was extinguished, according to a news release.
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Oakland County, which has the second-busiest dispatch center in the state, began offering the text-to-911 service in early 2015.
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A phone conversation is still more efficient, but in cases like the Rochester Hills man, the ability to text an emergency got help there quickly.
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There were no injuries in the fire.
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