By CBS News
MIAMI, Fla. — “What’s the location of your emergency please?” asked an emergency dispatcher. When the 9-1-1 center got a call from someone across the country alerting them to a local fire, they were puzzled.
“My caller is actually in Indiana,” declared Dispatcher #1. At a fire station in another state came this reply. “Okay.”
Dispatcher #1 continued. “My caller was playing online and someone posted that he was disabled and his stove was on fire and he couldn’t get out.” Firefighters didn’t brush it off as a prank. Instead they suited up, jumped in the truck and raced to the address where they found smoke pouring out of the windows.
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