Dials are clogging the system and you are paying for it. 10 News Reporter darren flowers has what you need to know about an issue that could save your life. Reporter on any given day 9 11 operators get a call like this. They hear something in the there is an emergency. First thing 911 operator does is stay on the line to ensure they can not hear background noise that would be struggle. Reporter thats one example of a butt dial or pocket call. Immediately. Dont answer. It is a number they dont know. Once we dont get an answer we have to put in a call for it. They spend three times the amount of time on that call processing it as they do a call and they could communicate with them. Reporter brad with the Hillsborough County Sheriffs Office says this problem is serious and could affect you. 911 got about 540,000 calls somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 per year are these types of calls. Cell calls that are hanged up considered accidental dials. Reporter this is all the false alarm calls
Fighting operation. Thankfully a baby is found safe but the search is on for kidnappers. God bless America Hillary clinton celebrates her win in South Carolina primary. Now, all eyes are on super tuesday. Youre watching fox 13 and the 10 00 news starts now. Im rain lloyd sowers. Im haley hinds. Deputies made a bust on a cock fighting ring. Evan lambert is live in ybor. Have the deputies caught the ring yet . Haley, not yet. They say its an investigation that could take weeks. Cruel and illegal cock fighting ring left behind. Dozens of dead chickens and some alive but aggressive and caged. Theres a lot were still in the process of counting them at this point. Deputies spent hours rang ling them. Wrangling them. It was well set up, it looked like it was going to be more of an in depth thing at that time. Its just we got there early. Reporter deputies say neighbors tiched them off but neighbors say they watched dozens of cars drive onto the property. On rival arrival, deputies observed do
I have to figure out what to do to pick up the pieces and get everything fixed. What happened when a tornado ripped through port charlotte. Yes, the flu is on the rise in our area. Why flu cases are on the rise and how the vaccine is doing battling it this year. We begin at 11 00 with the search for a missing boy who was never actually missing. It was all a big fat lie. It started when ismyel badillos Mother Told Police that her car was stolen with her child inside,. What did the parents have to stay . They both stopped short of saying they never lied to police and police precious resources and time as they tried to search for this boy who was never really missing. You see there that this boy was missing allegedly at around 1 30 when angelica morero told police her boy was taken inside a stolen car. That sent police into immediate overdrive chasing the stolen car and looking for the boy. The car crashed on u. S. 19 and curlew road. The boy was not in the car and eventually the mother a
Dave, we will see you then. But there are delays on 75 southbound, so far this looks like the most tricky incident we have working on the roadways, overall, its a quiet morning. We have a crash on fowler avenue, on the shoulder, a situation for the moveover law, you will be slowing down as you pass by. We are in the red here. Fifteen minutes from bruce down to i4. A couple incident, 75 southbound university, we have a crash in the left lane, it certainly points to leave early or avoid the area and please do so. Also, Sarasota County in the south part of the county, u. S. 41 at jack rin boulevard, a crash with one lane blocked in the northbound direction. 8 01. A Liquor Store Clerk takes matters into his own hands when two men walk into the store with their guns drawn. And police say that one of Shayla Reeves is live at the tampa police department. Will the clerk face charges for this . Reporter well, right now, no word on whether or not the clerk will face any charges. But, we can tell
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