Hola, Jeanne. One must understand that 911 is not a county entity like Victor. Victor heads Proteccion Civil at the County level and can not interfere with 911 rules, and we can not qualify for 911 coverage until an essential 911 requirement is met.

The requirement states that a landline phone must be in place in LM 24/7 to receive 911 calls. It can not be a cell phone.

I'm taking the opportunity to discuss establishing an ambulance base at our Centro de Salud Clinic office if and when it ceases to provide services.

This is a very long shot and perhaps not worth mentioning. We would need several volunteers daily to answer the phone and contact ambulance crew members for service delivery, or we could have two or three paid ambulance workers. Ambulance dispatchers carry a lot of responsibility and need training to provide life-saving direction.

However, 24/7 landline phone coverage is needed to qualify for the 911 emergency call system. For 911 emergency call service inclusion.

Otherwise, our best alternative is to continue with our present unreliable cell phone coverage and hope that calls reach our dispatcher. We are very aware that cell phone connectivity is hit-and-miss here.

So, developing a landline base might be worth the effort. Emiliano Zapata operates an ambulance base with three crew members. La Huerta and the town of Zapata remunerate them.

When anyone in LM calls 911, a 911 operator calls the Zapata ambulance base. The on-turn Zapata crew member tries to contact our LM dispatcher, who tries to reach an LM ambulance crew member. When our dispatcher can't reach a crew member, and this happens, Zapata would be called to send their ambulance.

As you can see, a lot of valuable time is lost. Just an idea to ponder. Cruz

PS: I forgot to call the nurse at Centro de Salud until now to find out if and when the local clinic service will be terminated. Manana, lol.