SPAIN You see an accident and call for an ambulance, but who do
you call? One of the first numbers to come to mind might be 061, the emergency
number for the ambulance service. Then you see that the driver is trapped
behind the wheel and looks injured. Maybe an ambulance is not enough. The bomberos (fire rescue service) number is ... (?) ... The
right answer to the question is: call
112, which is the emergency co-ordination service, able to evaluate the
situation as you describe it. 112 is the number
to call (and the only one your mobile
phone will allow you to use if you're out of range or credit), yet all over
Spain
there are still a whole series of three-digit numbers, most of which are
neither familiar or identifiable with the service they are linked to. The most
common of them are indeed emergency services, but a lot of them are merely
public services and no use in an emergency.>>>
