It depends on where you are. I've had excellent experience with the few times I've called, in Arapahoe and Jefferson Counties, Colorado. I had an outright "ple

It depends on where you are. I've had excellent experience with the few times I've called, in Arapahoe and Jefferson Counties, Colorado. I had an outright "please come right away" emergency with my kid, and an ambulance came right away. I've called about suspicious activity in the neighborhood, and the sheriff came right away. I even called because someone stole the registration tag from my car and taped it on their car (a neighbor living in the same apartment building) and they showed up, not at emergency speed but way before I would have been pissed. The ambulance is part of the fire department here (and often it's a firetruck that shows up before the ambulance, all the same people). And we're not nuts like Chicago apparently is. EDIT: > Be prepared to take care of yourself. I agree with that 100%.