Police, health officials and the gas emergency line in England received thousands of calls from worried people.
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An unidentified woman reportedly called an emergency line after Lorraine Bayless, 87, collapsed inside a dining room and appeared barely to be breathing.
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MPs, it emerged that Northern Rock, a mortgage lender especially reliant on the money markets for its funding, would be granted an emergency line of credit by the central bank.
The emergency line number is 0800 052 0400.
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Chambers, which includes Oak Island, has sustained "widespread damage, " a message on the county's emergency telephone line said.
In the next room, phone operators sitting at computer terminals took calls from employees to Valero's emergency hot line.
The National Grid, which would normally deal with up to 10, 000 calls a day to its gas emergency phone line, had received more than 100, 000 calls by 14:00 GMT.
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The local police were simply not trained to deal with such a dangerous situation - and the team manning the 999 emergency phone line were not able to deal with the volume of calls coming in.
The new 111 non-emergency telephone advice line is expected to replace NHS Direct in dealing with non-emergency calls in June.
The organisation representing British doctors has written to NHS bosses to call for a delay in the launch of a new non-emergency telephone advice line.
The report also highlighted the lack of an accepted international industry standard for tug tow line emergency release systems, and asked risk management organisation Lloyd's Register to develop a standard to ensure tow lines can be released effectively in an emergency.
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Problems with a new non-emergency NHS telephone advice line have prompted Shropshire health chiefs to divert calls back to a local service.
Mr Parrington said there was no emergency stop button on the line, Miss Nield was unable to save herself, and it could easily have been a fatality.
For many of these families, emergency unemployment insurance is the last line of defense between hardship and catastrophe.
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The emergency tug, Herakles, attached a line to the helicopter, to protect the aircraft from the swell, and coastguards have been broadcasting hourly navigational warnings to nearby shipping.
Emergency director Marcogliese asked terminal managers to line up fuel trucks that could be sent to resupply a gas station near the Texas City refinery so workers at least would have fuel to get around.
Carnival said the ship's emergency diesel generator failed, but the cruise line disputed notions of a widespread system failure.
Pacific Lumber made an emergency loan and has since expanded its credit line to pay Scopac's interest again on Jan. 20.
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's eight-month-old government has taken a tough line on strikers, invoking an emergency law twice in recent months to order seamen and metro staff back to work.
"Like a giant welfare cheat, Gorbachev is trying to muscle the Soviet Union to the head of the line for U.S. emergency assistance, pushing aside the more urgent and deserving needs of men, women, and children from some 40 less-developed countries in desperate economic straits, " said Jennifer J.
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The two non-emergency numbers are 0845 607 1002 (English language line) 0845 607 1001 (Welsh language).
Since she is not truly an emergency patient, she is triaged to the back of the line, and other folks, those in immediate distress, get in for treatment ahead of her.
She said Morsy's state of emergency declaration should be governed by the rule of law, in line with international standards, and urged him to listen to the demands of demonstrators and take action to deal with problems in the judicial system.
Since Southwest has open seating, jumping to the front of the line can yield a better seat, perhaps even in an emergency exit row.
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Congress can also threaten down the line to take out their frustration on what's called emergency supplemental bills, voting against the multi-billion dollar packages that literally fund the war.
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"We estimate that every home built on the river side of the levee from Memphis all the way to the Louisiana line is flooded, " said Mike Womack, executive director of the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.
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But if you look behind me David, there's the kind of thin white line of sandbanks, 900 people, 300 soldiers, the ordinary citizens and emergency services, they're the ones that saved York, who built those kind of extra additions to the flood defences and saved us from, you know increasing waters of 15 to 20 feet.
Federal funding is available to state and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by the severe storms and straight-line winds in the counties of Atlantic, Cumberland, and Salem.
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