ALERT 911 services down across all of south dakota, and Las Vegas, and spreading to other states

[crossbowboy]

FEMA recommends writing your SSN on the inside of your left forearm with a permanent marker.

Why does that sound familiar...?

 

[bw]

In the Army we wrote our SN inside our boots. They told us even if there wasn't much left, there was almost always at least one foot in a boot.

 

[Greywolf036]

In the Army we wrote our SN inside our boots. They told us even if there wasn't much left, there was almost always at least one foot in a boot.

Well, that changed. When I was in, we put a dog tag on the boot laces

 

[bw]

Well, that changed. When I was in, we put a dog tag on the boot laces

Be a problem if that was the boot that stepped on the mine.

 

[WOS]

Did AF basic training in the early 70's, we had to stamp everything, boots, uniforms, underwear, everything, they gave us with the last four digits of our SS#. Even provided an ink pad and stamp for it..... Thankfully it was never needed.

 

[Burrito]

Light pole installation in Missouri hits fiber line, knocks out 911 service in several states

Also unclear was whether any emergency situations were impacted.

apnews.com

Light pole installation in Missouri hits fiber line, knocks out 911 service in several states​

BY SARAH BRUMFIELD, JOSH FUNK AND JIM SALTER
Updated 5:45 PM CDT, April 18, 2024

Workers installing a light pole in Missouri cut into a fiber line, knocking out 911 service for emergency agencies in Nebraska, Nevada and South Dakota, an official with the company that operates the line said Thursday.

Problems with 911 calls in a Texas city along the U.S. border with Mexico were unrelated, officials said, but the widespread outage created concerns about what was causing the problems.

For most agencies, it turned out to be the result of simple human error.

In Kansas City, Missouri, workers installing a light pole for another company Wednesday cut into a Lumen Technologies fiber line, Lumen global issues director Mark Molzen said in an email to The Associated Press. Service was restored within 2 1/2 hours, he said. There were no reports of 911 outages in Kansas City.

Meanwhile, the difficulties some cellphone callers experienced making 911 calls in in Del Rio, Texas, were apparently because of an outage involving a cellular carrier, not the city’s 911 system, city spokesman Peter Ojeda said. Lumen is not a 911 service provider for Texas.

Federal officials were looking into the outage.