Here is something you don’t hear about too often. 911 outage. Washington state had an outage that lasted for hours.
Washington state 911 restored after overnight outage
by KING 5 News and Associated Press
Posted on April 10, 2014 at 5:57 AM
Updated today at 7:54 AM
SEATTLE -- 911 service has been restored in Washington following a statewide outage Thursday.
CenturyLink spokeswoman Kerry Zimmer says it's unknown if the problem was caused by computer hacking or an equipment problem.
Zimmer says it began about 1:30 a.m. Thursday at Sheridan, Ore., and service in Oregon was also affected for a time.All service was restored just after 7 a.m.