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National Ambulance Service Received Almost 1,400 Fake Calls Last Year

By Jane McNamara
22/05/2022
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Over 300 fake or prank calls were recorded during the school holiday months of June and July.

The NAS said calls were categorised as a hoax where the caller terminated the conversation before providing sufficient detail to warrant sending an ambulance.

They said: “Other indications are the caller laughing (adult or child). The trained emergency call taker would escalate a suspected hoax call to the control supervisor who would assess, analyse and make a decision on the authenticity of the call.”

The NAS said they had received more than 363,000 calls last year, of which only a small fraction were hoax calls.

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