Over 300 fake or prank calls were recorded during the school holiday months of June and July.
The NAS said calls were categorised as a hoax where the caller terminated the conversation before providing sufficient detail to warrant sending an ambulance.
They said: “Other indications are the caller laughing (adult or child). The trained emergency call taker would escalate a suspected hoax call to the control supervisor who would assess, analyse and make a decision on the authenticity of the call.”
The NAS said they had received more than 363,000 calls last year, of which only a small fraction were hoax calls.
