In this Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, photo, operators at the Houston Emergency Center answer calls for help to 911 in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in Houston. Several Nebraska counties, the entire state of South Dakota, southern Nevada and the …
In Las Vegas, the outage started just before 7 p.m. and ended in an hour, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department wrote in posts on social media. Other parts of southern Nevada were also affected, with the emergency service restored in the area by 9:08 p.m., Nevada State Police said. In South Dakota, the statewide outage lasted from around 9:48 p.m. to 11:26 p.m., per social media posts from the South Dakota Department of Public Safety and the South Dakota Highway Patrol.
In Nebraska, the counties of Douglas, Sarpy, Washington, Cass, Dodge, Lincoln, Buffalo, Howard and Kearney lost service, which was restored by Thursday morning, according to Omaha ABC affiliate KETV.In Texas, the Kilgore Police Department first posted on social media about “intermittent” outages at 4:50 p.m. while the Del Rio Police Department posted that 911 service was out at 8:13 p.m. As of Thursday, neither department had disclosed whether 911 service was restored.
Law enforcement across the four states did not say what caused the outage. The Federal Communications Commission posted on X Thursday that the incidents were being investigated.
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