911 Outage Affecting Multiple States

Published on April 18, 2024

Law enforcement agencies in multiple states have been grappling with outages affecting their 911 emergency lines, disrupting services in key areas including Las Vegas, Nevada, the entirety of South Dakota, and parts of Nebraska. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) advised residents who need emergency services to use their mobile devices to dial 911, assuring callers that dispatchers would be able to identify their number and promptly return their call. However, the department emphasized that 911 calls from landlines were not operational as of 7 p.m. local time on Wednesday. The exact cause of the outages remains undisclosed, and authorities have yet to provide an estimated timeline for service restoration. In Las Vegas, no specific time frame was provided for the resumption of services after the outage started around 7 p.m. local time....

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