Yes and no ...there are no guarantees. It all depends from where you are making the call and moreso the 911 center that receives the cell call. For ex, if you are near a county line say a rec center, and you call 911, it could go to Lake or Marion County...NOT Sumter Cty where =the emergency exists...the first thing an operator will ask you is what county you are calling from. If Lake received the call and you say Sumter, Lake 911 will transfer the call to Sumter. During that transfer some but not necessarily all information is passed to Sumter cty 911. YOU NEED TO TELL THEM THE EXACT ADDRESS THE EMERGENCY IF LOCATED AT....otherwise the EMTs will try and coordinate the cell calls from Tower pings to get a location and it does not always work. It is not sufficient to simply say a Rec centers or a landmark name.....EMT drivers are not necessarily from this area.
Look it works most of the time BUT what I am saying is it is not a perfect system calling 911 via a cell phone. EVen when an emergency happens on a golf course, they always tell you to call 911 and follow it up to call the the Starter shack...for then the starter shack calls 911 on a landline.
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