Marshall Fire Chief and Saline County Emergency Management Agency Director Tony Day is concerned emergency services are being called out for non-emergencies.
Day said accidentally locking yourself out of your vehicle ordinarily is not an emergency unless under certain circumstances.

Day says everyone has to assume the call is an emergency no matter what the caller says because they may be in some kind of duress, and that’s the only way they can get someone to come.

Day says there haven’t been a lot of calls for vehicle lockouts recently due to COVID-19. But he said they did get three calls on Friday, June 26, for that reason. He says those types of calls typically increase during the school year.