As a deaf person I've used the uk's equivalent 'text 911' service - EmergencySMS - several times.
Works really well. If there's enough interest I might put up an anonymised transcript of one of my texted emergency calls.
Note in the UK you have to pre-register (a very easy process which is done via text message ) to be able to send texts to 999 (our 911). I think it's cos of capacity - only enough for deafies, who actually need this service, - not enough to deal with stupid drunk hearies firing off texts to 999.
Works really well. If there's enough interest I might put up an anonymised transcript of one of my texted emergency calls.
Note in the UK you have to pre-register (a very easy process which is done via text message ) to be able to send texts to 999 (our 911). I think it's cos of capacity - only enough for deafies, who actually need this service, - not enough to deal with stupid drunk hearies firing off texts to 999.