The emergency service was used for the first time on 17th.

The other guy takes out his phone and calls the emergency services.

I know what the emergency service is, I'm sure everybody else does.

"The emergency services knew exactly what they were doing from last time."

These people also pass on the information to emergency services.

What would the emergency services be doing at this time?

And it looks like all the emergency services are out.

He was on the French side at the time emergency services had given up.

The first call to emergency services was at 5:38 am.

Emergency services were doing what they could, but things had obviously got out of their control long ago.