Phone Lines Ready for 2012 NORAD Tracks Santa

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) – Where is Santa? NORAD is here to help answer that question with NORAD Tracks Santa. It is primed for its 57th annual goodwill mission. Santa trackers are taking calls telling children and some adults when Santa is due at their house. The number is 877-HI-NORAD or 877-446-6723. Updates will be posted online (http://www.noradsanta.org), on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/noradsanta) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/NoradSanta). The operation is based at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., home of the North American Aerospace Defense Command. NORAD Tracks Santa began in 1955 when a newspaper ad listed the wrong phone number for kids to call Santa. They wound up calling the Continental Air Defense Command, NORAD’s predecessor.