JEFFERSON COUNTY, OK - Currently in any emergency cell phone callers in Jefferson County have to give detailed directions to their exact location, but next week residents will vote whether to bring an enhanced 911 system to the county, which would not only pinpoint a caller's location from a land line, but cell phone calls as well, no matter where the call was made.

It's a potential problem Ringling firefighter Micky Whorley faces every day.

"If you're having a massive heart attack, you can't talk and give directions, and with the system we have now, it's basically if that's the case, we can't find you."

Jefferson County E-911 coordinator Mike Faulkner says in towns like Ringling homes can have up to three different addresses, making it even more confusing for responders. Faulkner says many times calls made from cell phones have to be directed through several dispatcher centers before the closest responders are sent out.

"If you make a call from a cell phone, it may go to Texas, it may go to Comanche County, it may go anywhere. So once again there's a time lag between your 911 emergency call and that dispatcher finding out where you're at and directing you to the correct county," Faulkner says.

Firefighter Micky Whorley says the new enhanced 911 system would not only give every structure in the county a formal address, but every call would show up on a GPS mapping system inside the fire trucks leading them right to the location.

"If somebody does just dial the phone 911, and they leave the phone on the floor, we can at least send people to the address or wherever the call comes from because of the GPS it will have."

Residents will have to approve a 50 cent a month service fee on cell phones and $2.50 a month for landlines to implement the system, something Faulker says is a small price for a quicker response in an emergency.

"We always think it's someone else, but when it's us and that two minutes could make the difference between losing your house or losing your child that 50 cents a month on cell phones, $2.50 on residential becomes very minimum."

Voters in Jefferson County will have to pass the service fee increase by a majority vote next Tuesday in order to go ahead with the enhanced 911 system.