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Call Waiting

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What happens between a 911 call and help arriving?

Follow response definitions, infrastructure, geography, and the records still needed to account for the wait.

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The investigation keeps its existing application, research pages, and source record. The Porch provides a place to begin and follow related work.

What this can tell you

Retains the published September 13 research release and its source-linked explanations; no new incident-level response estimates are added by the Porch.

Sources and limits

Creator

Kaitlin Quinn

Provenance

Built by Kaitlin

Data owner

City of Portland and individually attributed source publishers

Coverage

Portland, Oregon; source-specific coverage may differ

Data date

Not established; see the source

Last source check

2026-09-14

Updates

No fixed schedule promised; see source dates

Limits

The Sandy case has no matched official incident in the recovered work. No verified official duration or numerical I-5 closure effect is available. The existing analytical map remains limited.

Authority

Independent research using agency-published sources

Reuse

Underlying data retain their source terms; no blanket reuse license is granted here.

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