{"id":36231,"date":"2017-09-07T16:25:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T21:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=36231"},"modified":"2017-09-07T16:25:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T21:25:06","slug":"updated-text-to-911-is-growing-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2017\/09\/07\/updated-text-to-911-is-growing-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATED: Text-to-911 is Growing in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Deaf and Hard of Hearing Friends and Family: If you are in a disaster area and need help — please remember Text-to-911 is NOT everywhere! If you try to text in an area without Text-to-911, you will get a bounce-back message. You will need to call using a TTY or Relay Service. Also, watch the news because some areas are providing special phone to call numbers that may be set up to receive text.<\/p>\n

PLEASE SHARE this so the message gets out to as many Deaf and Hard of Hearing Texans as possible!!<\/p>\n

Here is the FCC VOLUNTARY Listing of PSAPs with Text-to-911.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/files\/text-911-master-psap-registryxlsx\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Deaf and Hard of Hearing Friends and Family: If you are in a disaster area and need help — please remember Text-to-911 is NOT everywhere! If you try to text in an area without Text-to-911, you will get a bounce-back…<\/p>\n

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