Does your telephone company charge you something when you call or dial 911?

Yesterday night I heard several loud screams from children nearby my neighborhood, around 11:30pm, the screams became louder, and I was scared so I called 911 to see what was that? An operator answered me and I told her the situation, I kept talking about 10 minutes explaining her all the situation, after a while the police came immediately and saw some kids hanging around from a tree that were traped playing a game, the kids were rescued and well I was so scared! But thanks God anything bad happened.

But now the situation is that I've made several long-distance calls, and I also made like 20 international calls. And I figure out that my phone bill right now (not due) is $263.08, plus the 911 call!!!! I'm very worried!!! Do are they going to charge me something????

I hope not!!! If not my bill will become at $300 or more! And I have not received my salary!!!! I have BellSouth as the telephone company! Help!?

No they don't charge you anything.

It's an emergency number in which they are not going to charge you anything for your call.

If you can see your phone bill, you will se in the Goverment Mandated Charges: A fee of $0.50 (in some states higher) for the 911 Emergency Recovery Fee, that's a fee that you pay to maintain the recovery of the 911 emergency calls.

So don't be worried, your phone will be at the exact amount that you said.