Thanks to Katrin for the Aug. 2009 updates to the numbers, which mostly reflected the European Union adoption of 112.
The European Union (EU) has selected 112 as the Union's official emergency
number, and required member nations to implement it by Dec. 1992. However,
several countries, including England (999), already had three-digit numbers
and, since the EU directive, have continued to operate them in parallel
with the required 112 number. As yet, the EU has not required nations
to use only 112. The EU members are:
Belgium
Denmark
Germany
Greece
Spain
France
Ireland
Italy
Luxemburg
Netherlands
Austria
Portugal
UK
Sweden
Finland
Surf this page listing the status of 112 in the European Union countries as of 1999.
In March, 2000 officials of the National Emergency Number Association (NENA) visited Columbia (South America) to assist officials there with plans to establish a nationwide three-digit emergency number. So far, they've planned on using the number 1-2-3 instead of 9-1-1.
Also review a state-by-state list of mobile emergency numbers.
We've downloaded the latest
list of emergency numbers from the European Telecommunications Office, listing the numbers used by its 43 members countries. In many cases, these countries use several numbers. Note above that the 15 European Union countries are moving towards a single number--112.
We've updated the world map with the 3-digit emergency number for the Phillipines--117.
The Irish Emergency Ambulance Web
site contains an extensive list of emergency numbers in other countries.
The city of Tokyo has declared January 10 to be "110 Day" (get it?), asking residents not to dial the three-digit emergency number for non-emergencies.
The Santa Clara County (Calif.) Fire Department has posted a list of emergency numbers around the world.
A private Norweigan Web site has a map and listing of European Union nation's that are moving to the 112 emergency number.
We understand that Brazil and El Salvador (previously 121) implemented 911 in at least some portions of the countries in 2000. The El Salvador installation includes CAD and mapping by Intergraph Pubic Safety.
