A number of police departments around the United States have reported that their 911 services are down, a widespread outage believed to be linked to a glitch in a Microsoft cloud computing platform used by law enforcement.
Police and sheriffs departments in at least Minnesota, Arizona and Nevada have noted issues with their emergency call systems on Monday, directing residents to use alternative numbers while they work to correct the issue, allegedly caused by a technical failure in Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing services.
ATTENTION: The 911 lines are not operational nationwide. This is for phone calls and text messaging. If you need police, fire or emergency medical assistance in Minneapolis, please call 612-348-2345. We will advise when this issue is fixed.
— Minneapolis Police (@MinneapolisPD) September 28, 2020
Public safety alerts were sent by text to some Minnesota residents, also giving another way to contact authorities if calls to 911 fail to go through.
BREAKING: nationwide 911 outage
— Kyle Hooten (@KyleHooten2) September 29, 2020
Can confirm in my area of Minnesota ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/bgJE71xHmK
Microsoft earlier on Monday reported that a “subset of customers in the Azure Public and Azure Government clouds may encounter errors,” while the company’s Office 365 service also encountered issues.
911 services are down in the City of Tucson. If you need to make an emergency call, dial 520-372-8011. We will let you know when 911 is back online. pic.twitter.com/aDfAIX3yDU
— Tucson Police Dept (@Tucson_Police) September 28, 2020
Police departments are reporting 911 outages in states all across the country including Illinois, Nevada, Arizona, Ohio, Delaware, Minnesota, Indiana, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Minnesota https://t.co/IpoqxwQhaY pic.twitter.com/HpTSi4xt5z
— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) September 29, 2020
source https://www.rt.com/usa/501986-police-911-nationwide-outage/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS
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