Six air ambulance flights took place between 16 and 23 October, taking seriously ill patients to specialist care, the national 112 emergency service, part of the Interior Ministry, said. The 112 line received 31,328 calls in the week, 10.7% more than in the same week a year earlier.

Between 9 and 16 October, 112 received 34,469 regular calls and there were nine air ambulance flights.

On 17 October, an iPhone automatically sent a message with coordinates from the Hemus motorway, between the Vitinya and Topli Dol tunnels. Rescue teams were sent out. Several calls then came in about an icy stretch of road and a pile-up.

On 22 October, a smartwatch sent an automatic alert for urgent medical help. A call about a person unable to help themselves came right after it, and that person was taken to hospital.

Of all calls, 13,567 went to emergency medical centres and 5,670 were passed to local councils to deal with. There were 2,006 calls about road crashes, 1,002 about fires, five about disasters, 285 about breakdowns, six about household and industrial incidents and three about hazardous substances.

Calls about crimes against people totalled 7,528, and 898 were about crimes against property. There were 21 calls about reckless driving and street races, 312 about missing people or people in distress, and five about illegal migrants and refugees.

Eight cross-border calls needed police, fire or ambulance help for France, Czechia, the Netherlands, Greece and Germany.