From CNN:
Service has been mostly restored after law enforcement agencies in at least four states reported 911 service interruptions Wednesday evening, though the cause of the outages remains unclear.
Authorities in South Dakota, Texas, Nebraska and Nevada had announced outages in multiple cities, with some urging residents in need of assistance to either text 911 or call using a landline. Within hours, however, the outages had been largely addressed, including in metropolitan areas like Sioux Falls and Rapid City, South Dakota, and Las Vegas.
As of Thursday morning, some agencies had yet to confirm service had been restored, including those in Del Rio, Texas, and Douglas and Chase counties, Nebraska – the former of which encompasses Omaha.
Officials have not detailed a cause for the 911 service interruptions, and they have not been found to be malicious. The Del Rio Police Department attributed its outage to a “major cellular carrier,” noting “the issue is with the carrier, and not the City of Del Rio Systems.”
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