Question: Can you reach first responders (911) with the Delorme InReach?
Yes. The DeLorme InReach has a lockable separate dedicated button that sends to whatever Search and Rescue operates in that part of the world.
I've used mine regularly going into my third year with it. Just texted my wife to tell her I was injured and coming home early, from the back side of nowhere on logging roads on the west side of Vancouver Island. Closer to home and towns I stopped by a resort lodge and they don't have cell phone nor anything but direct satellite communications. The DeLorme worked great, as it has from N.Saskatchewan to Canadian Rockies, remote B.C. coast, WA State and N. Carolina coast.
I'm near 70 and carry it all the time.
