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Over 330 calls to 112 in Malaga province at New Year

The figure represented 20 per cent of the emergency calls received throughout the Andalucía region

SUR

Tuesday, 8 January 2019, 11:13

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The 112 emergency service in Andalucía coordinated 330 callouts on New Year's Eve and the first few hours of 1 January in Malaga province, including the Costa del Sol, the Junta de Andalucía has said.

This represented 20 per cent of all the emergency calls received by the service in the Andalucía region.

The numbers are very similar to previous years over the same period, suggesting that 112 is now the principal generic number used to request an emergency service.

The two top categories for call- outs were health emergencies, with 133 incidents, and public safety and police with 107. Traffic accidents were the third type of callout, reaching 22 in the period monitored from 3pm on 31 December to 6am on New Year's Day. The busiest time for people contacting the 112 service was from 4am to 6am.

The 112 service is free to use and multi-lingual, and the number is also used for all emergency services across the European Union, including police, ambulance and fire brigade.

Of the 330 callouts in the province, 117 were in Malaga city.

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