JACKSONVILLE, FL –  911 emergency?  Or just a waste of police time?

COLUMBIA CITY, IN — A Columbia City family is recovering after a fire broke out at their home Thursday night.

AUGUSTA, GA — A woman who calls 911 leads to her arrest after investigators find out she’s been on the lam for 17 years.

DURHAM, NC — It was Monday afternoon in the Durham 911 Call Center when dispatcher April Hinesley froze in her seat.

WINCHESTER, OH — A woman is lucky to be alive after being kidnapped from a Brown County college Wednesday.

There are only a few situations that justify a call to 911—to report a fire, a medical emergency, or a crime in progress. There are, however, a lot of bad excuses for dialing dispatch. Here are ten. 1. The Jets aren’t in Winnipeg. It might have been criminal to a certain demographic that the Winnipeg Jets moved to Phoenix in 1996. But 14 years later, a man in Lundar,...

PAINESVILLE, OH — When the emergency siren sounds at the Painesville Fire Department, the firefighte/paramedics go running to help. But they say not all of those calls turn out to be dire situations. “We’ve responded to a call where all they needed was a Band-Aid. They cut their finger,” Fire Chief Mark Mlachak said. He said the loss of the hospital...