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UTICA, NY (WUTR-TV) — Could ordering a pizza alert 911 dispatchers of an emergency?

‘Yes,’ says Oneida County Emergency Services Director Kevin Revere.

“We are familiar with that, it’s kind of a basic training tool that’s been used in the past…’ ‘…or pretending that you’re talking to somebody else on the telephone,” Revere said.

At the end of November, social media was abuzz after an Ohio woman called 911, and ordered a pizza–doing so to report a domestic situation at home…