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I think lots of us were able to assume that context from the title

My first thought was that more people were able to contact 911 because of the new satellite feature

This reminds me when I was younger my family would bring walkie talkies to talk to each other when skiing. But they didn't work well or at all if you were on different mountains, in a valley, etc. It's a wonder we were able to not get lost lol

I thought that there was some sort of natural disaster in the town, resulting in POTS phones and normal cell service being out, but some Apple feature (meshing perhaps) enabling the automated alerts to get through.

Yeah. If it's too long, better to take out the "emergency dispatch centers."

"Colorado town fielding dozens of automated 911 calls from skier iPhones"

But that wouldn't generate as many clicks!