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by Forge36 1444 days ago
Having no experience and some quick googling.

1. It depends where you are and who's monitoring.

2. If you're near a city or busy highway this may be "good enough" but the range can the big limit (One number thrown out was ~10 miles)

I'm guessing from the parent that they wanted immediate help and this frequency would not get you directly to emergency services