During the week, the Samu du Rhône receives an average of 1,000 calls each day. – C. Girardon / 20 Minutes
Firefighters, Samu or the police … The call services dedicated to emergencies in several departments face major technical problems, announced the Interior Ministry on its Twitter account.
In several French departments, emergency numbers, such as 15, to call Samu, 17 for the police, 18 for firefighters or 112, the emergency number of the European Union, no longer work. .
⚠️📞Some call centers#emergency 15-17-18-112 are having difficulty receiving calls. Everything is done to resolve these dysfunctions as quickly as possible.
➡️ Follow official accounts for local emergency information and numbers.– Ministry of the Interior (@Interieur_Gouv) June 2, 2021
Some departments have set up emergency numbers. On its Twitter account, the Ministry of the Interior asks the French to follow “official accounts to obtain information and local emergency numbers”.
According to our colleagues from BFMTV, these are in particular the departments of Seine-et-Marne, Saône-et-Loire, Ain or even Côte d’Or. Still according to our colleagues, “these failures could be the result of improper handling during a maintenance operation”.