Oakland 911 system goes down; non-emergency lines for Gilroy, Morgan Hill PD also cut
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By Tim Fang Emergency calls in the City of Oakland were being answered by Alameda County after the city’s 911 system went down Wednesday night, with the outage attributed to copper wire theft and damaged fiber optic lines.
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Oakland’s 911 emergency system has been offline since Wednesday night after fiber-optic and copper lines were damaged, prompting police to investigate whether the disruption was criminal. Emergency calls to the Oakland Police Department are currently being rerouted to the Alameda County Sheriff’s Of…
The 911 emergency calls to Oakland police have been down since Wednesday night and are being rerouted to the Alameda County Sheriff's dispatch center, as well as to Oakland's fire dispatch center, police reported on Thursday.
By Tim Fang Emergency calls in the City of Oakland are being answered by Alameda County after the city’s 911 system went down Wednesday night. Around 8:30 p.m., dispatchers at the police department noticed the Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) system froze and displayed an error message.
(KRON) -- A major system outage left Oakland police dispatchers without working phone lines or internet service, prompting the city to reroute emergency calls to the Alameda County Sheriff's Office. The disruption affected both emergency and non-emergency phone lines across the Police Department.
Oakland's 911 system is down after the city's emergency communications center lost service to its phone lines, internet and computer-aided dispatch system. Emergency calls are being handled by the Alameda County Sheriff's Office.
By Tim Fang Emergency calls in the City of Oakland were being answered by Alameda County after the city’s 911 system went down Wednesday night, with the outage attributed to copper wire theft and damaged fiber optic lines.
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