Statewide 911 system outage in Massachusetts is resolved, officials say | CNN
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The statewide 911 outage in Massachusetts has been resolved after the system was down for over an hour on Tuesday, the state’s Executive Office of Public Safety and Security announced.
  • bradorsomething@ttrpg.network
    23·
    5 months ago

    Looks like the state operates a single 911 system, so while we can speculate a number of reasons, the most logical conclusion is either a trunk failure or an update failure that cut routing to their distribution. Fortunately it looks like they found the problem quickly and worked around it.

    If you’re interested in what went wrong, they won’t be excited to publicize it, but a FOIA request should release the report on what happened.

    • Frozengyro@lemmy.world
      8·
      5 months ago

      I’d imagine a major city would have noticed immediately. I’m sure Boston gets several hundred calls an hour.

  • grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world
    19·
    5 months ago

    I live in MA. My work and personal cell phones were screeching alerts every hour until it got restored. Kinda scary that it can go down like that.

  • Stovetop@lemmy.world
    14·
    5 months ago

    Right as a big heat wave kicks off, too.

    When I saw the message come up on my phone, all I could think was how glad I was to not be whoever is responsible for the outage, because people are likely going to die from this and I’d never want that on my conscience.