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Stay on the line. Do not hang up, because that just expands our trunk system, which overloads it and puts on hold the number of people we cant get to. So stay on the line. What we also initiated last night whats a voice activated system that notifies people if they do call 911, their call is being processed. Thats significant. It what we were experiencing earlier was a constant rain and thinking our system was down. Our system hasnt been down, just the long way to call, so stay on the line. Were also encouraging citizens if they receive any calls from relatives, if they have contacted 911 previously, do not follow up with that. Do not test 911 right now. We are just experiencing an abundance of calling. We do have a good grasp on that. We are encouraging people if they do need help, please call 911 and we will process that call. [ inaudible ]. Extreme emergencies. Status reports is not life threatening, okay, so we discourage those types of calls. We really want to keep those lines ope

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