A single prank call can delay emergency response—and cost someone their life. This is the urgent warning from the Pangasinan Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) amid the ...

ATLANTA - Officials with Atlanta’s 911 Dispatch Center said prank and non-emergency calls are adding to slow response times. With over 3,000 calls a day, dispatchers said only three-quarters of those ...

The Lane County Sheriff's Office is urging parents to speak with their children about the seriousness of using emergency services after local law enforcement resources were tied up responding to a ...

The Pangasinan Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) has warned prank callers to stop dialing the ...

Ryan Seacrest has become a victim of the recent celebrity swatting pranks. Police were called to Seacrest's Los Angeles home on Wednesday (April 10), after an unknown person told authorities in a ...

An 18-year-old straphanger was stabbed to death on a Brooklyn subway train when his pal pulled “a stupid kid prank” and yanked the emergency brake — ticking off a knife-wielding attacker, police said ...

Each year, hundreds of subway riders pull the emergency brake for no good reason. Last week, that kind of vandalism led to a derailment that injured dozens. By Ana Ley The collision between two subway ...

The Northern Regional Command of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has raised serious concerns over the growing incidence of prank emergency calls, ...