sven sixtooooo
A quick dit (and cautionary tale), from a friend of mine working at RAF St Mawgan in Cornwall UK... sat in the tower one evening he sees a red flare off to the west (out over the sea)... quick thinking puts in a 999 call to the Coastguard. The ensuing conversation goes like this:
"Emergency HM Coastguard"
"Hi it's St Mawgan ATC here, I've just seen what I think might be distress flare?"
"Who'd you say you were?"
"RAF St Mawgan
"Where's that?"
"Newquay"
"That's in Cornwall, isn't it?"
"YES!!!!"
"Well why are you ringing me... this is Great Yarmouth Coastguard?"
... seems the BT call centre just puts you through to their nearest emergency service call centre, and in this case it was one on the other side of the country??? Beware, be-warned!!!