Hotline to track Santa

This content was originally posted in 7DAYS UAE website at: Hotline to track Santa Children from around the world and of all ages can track Santa on December 24 by calling the Avaya-powered 1 877 HI-NORAD hotline. Volunteers will answer their most pressing questions – from Santa’s estimated arrival time to the amount of weight he gains eating cookies throughout the long night. It’s the same technology Avaya Government Solutions uses to support the North American Aerospace Defence Command Operations Centre at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado. NORAD Tracks Santa began 60 years ago with a simple typo. A department store ad promoting a Santa hotline mistakenly listed the number of the air defence operations centre. Colonel Harry Shoup was on duty that night. Rather than hanging up, he had his team check the radar, find Santa’s location and share the information with every child who called. See noradsanta.org Read the original story at: Hotline to track Santa