Emergencies: 911, then the right local desk

Call 911

911 works in Fargo, West Fargo, and the rest of Cass County, North Dakota. 911 works in Moorhead, Dilworth, and the rest of Clay County, Minnesota. Stay on the line. Give a location a dispatcher can use — a building name, an intersection, a campus landmark.

• Life-threatening medical emergency: 911
• Fire: 911
• Crime in progress or immediate threat: 911
• Unsure but scared: 911 anyway. Dispatch would rather sort it than lose time.

Campus emergencies

Call 911, and call campus public safety if you can do it without delaying the first call. NDSU University Police publishes 701-231-8998. MSUM Public Safety publishes 218-477-2449. Concordia Public Safety publishes 218-299-3123. Search those office names to confirm before you need them.

Not an emergency, still official

The Red River Regional Dispatch Center publishes a metro non-emergency number, 701-451-7660, used in Fargo, Moorhead, and West Fargo for situations that need an officer and are not urgent. City police pages and 211 sit beside that. Help Me sits much further down the list: jump starts, walks, directions — never dispatch.