<p>The apartment building was on fire and this kid called his parents… minutes can cost lives.</p>
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<p>Sad that they’re so tied to the apron strings they don’t think of themselves as people who can call their local 911 number.</p>
<p>You know–at DS#2’s freshman orientation session last summer, they had every attendee program the number of the local police into their cell phone. They also had University and local police talk to the kids about what to do in different situations.</p>
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<p>We were always taught to get out of a burning house first, THEN call 911.</p>
<p>Yes, get out of the house first but call 911 second. Others may still be trapped in the house. Don’t call mom and dad.</p>
<p>We used to be able to just call 911 on our land line, but with cell phones there is no longer a concept of dialing 911. Every student should have their local police and 911 number on their cell phone. </p>
<p>I do not think this was a case of tied to their parent’s apron string. It was a case of in an emergency someone panicked and called someone they were closest to. Hard to believe, but most college students still think their parents are the closest people to them.</p>
<p>When my S was around 10, our family passion was watching Rescue 911. At one point some fall leaves piled across the street caught on fire. I was trying to beat them out, and told him to go call 911. He couldn’t do it, shy boy that he was! Luckily someone came with a hose and helped me out. </p>
<p>This is a good reminder to emphasize to students that there really is a time to call.</p>
<p>I think it might be that students need to be told not to assume that somebody else will call 911.</p>
<p>Also every college kid should take first aid. My daughters first aid instructor told them what to if they found someone passed out from alcohol poisoning and other possible college and dorm life scenarios</p>
<p>I called 911 once from my cell phone and the person answering didn’t know the city at all and was all confused about location of incident. Very frustrating and scary.</p>
<p>First aid is really important, and not just for alcohol issues. When I was in college, it was the first year of a coed dorm. Some friends and I were in the rec room at the end of a long hallway. Two of the guys were running full speed down that hallway and went to push open the doors, which were wooden with wired glass panes in the upper half. Unfortunately, one of them was locked. The guy broke the glass and his arm went partly through, despite the wire. He severed an artery. </p>
<p>Fortunately, one of my friends was a nursing student. She knew to apply pressure to slow the bleeding until the ambulance could get there. Of course, this was before AIDS when all that blood would have caused other issues. Anyway, what could have been a fatal accident was much less serious because she knew what to do.</p>