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

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911 services down across all of South Dakota​


Chris Dancy

RAPID CITY, S.D. — 911 services are down across the entire state of South Dakota, according to the Rapid City Police Department. There is no word on the cause of the outage, or how long it will be until service is restored.
The Rapid City Police Department advises residents of Rapid City and Pennington County to use 605-394-4131 or 605-394-2151 to contact dispatch for incidents requiring assistance from first responders.
Residents in other counties should contact their local police dispatchers using regular published 10-digit phone numbers.
This is a developing story. NewsCenter1 will provide updated information as it becomes available.
911 outages reported by Las Vegas, Henderson police
KTNV Staff
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Posted at 7:07 PM, Apr 17, 2024
and last updated 9:38 PM, Apr 17, 2024

7:30 p.m. - Henderson police are experiencing a 911 outage as well, which is affecting calls from landlines and cell phones.
However, they state the text to 911 feature is still functional and Rapid SOS is still working.
There is no estimated time for the system to be fully restored.

7 p.m. - Some outages could be impacting your ability to call 911.

According to Las Vegas police, 911 calls from landlines are not working, as of 7 p.m. on Wednesday night.

They add there is no estimated time for when that could be restored.

If you call 911 from a mobile number, operators will be able to see your number and call you back right away.

"Please do not attempt to call 911 to check," police said in a social media post. "Please keep our 911 system available for life-threatening emergencies."

Non-emergency calls are not impact by the outage.

If you have a non-emergency call, you can still contact police at (702) 828-3111.

The Text 911 feature is still working. You can learn more about that here.

Copyright 2024 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
 
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Ham radio is also working. It's always working.

We had a 911 outage a few years back, and the police chief phoned me. I had given them our phone tree for just that purpose. We went down to their HQ and set up, but the 911 was back pretty quick. I told the club this was exactly the kind of relationship we wanted with our responders - that we were who they thought of when the tech stuff failed.
 
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@rawsalerts
#BREAKING: There’s a Major 911 outages hitting the entire state of South Dakota and becoming nationwide

#UnitedStates | #USA

Currently, mysterious widespread outages are occurring across the nation, including the whole state of South Dakota and Nebraska, parts of Nevada, Texas, Iowa, Florida, Wisconsin, and Kentucky. Officials report major disruptions in 911 services, preventing emergency calls from getting through.

The cause of this outage remains unknown at this time as officials are actively investigating. This situation is still developing with more outages occurring.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1780797091167526930
View: https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1780797091167526930
 
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Mark D said:
The local PD and Medics use HAM, do they?
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We have ham radios installed at various buildings - fire, police, city EOC, etc., and people assigned to report there or hams who work there who can use the stuff. The precise protocol varies by site, and there are legal restrictions. Ham radio can't be worked for pay or be part of an assigned job description, so we have to work with that.
 
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jward said:
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These types of outage are almost certainly software or device related, if they were infrastructure related, everything would be down, i.e. Internet, residential services.

Source: Network Design for over 15 years.

There was a similar outage in 2020.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1780802067574997238
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Honestly that is it. There's been outage fairly regular over the last few years ours is because they switched over a new system when they trucked the scanners
 
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#UPDATE: Here, all 911 systems are now reported to be down, affecting all or parts of at least ten states, which are reportedly experiencing widespread outages. These outages are having an effect

• Minnesota
• New England
• Texas
• Florida
• Nebraska statewide
• Nevada
• South Dakota statewide
• Iowa
• Kentucky
• Wisconsin

There is no official explanation yet for the ongoing outage as it's unclear whether it's due to a possible cyber-attack or some other cause for the 911 outages as this is still developing

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It's spreading?

Meh

Won't help much if the canned sunshine starts flying.
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we are aware. apparently our foreign reporters are not. I meant to point that out earlier, but figured we here all understood that, and then forgot as the next wave o' kray kray news flooded the digital waves :eek:
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I figure everyone here understands About New England. But consider that if only 3 NE states are out. That would be 12 total. That’s almost25% of the country.
 
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911 services down across all of South Dakota​


Chris Dancy

RAPID CITY, S.D. — 911 services are down across the entire state of South Dakota, according to the Rapid City Police Department. There is no word on the cause of the outage, or how long it will be until service is restored.
The Rapid City Police Department advises residents of Rapid City and Pennington County to use 605-394-4131 or 605-394-2151 to contact dispatch for incidents requiring assistance from first responders.
Residents in other counties should contact their local police dispatchers using regular published 10-digit phone numbers.
This is a developing story. NewsCenter1 will provide updated information as it becomes available.
911 outages reported by Las Vegas, Henderson police
KTNV Staff
~2 minutes
Actions

911 calls
911 calls

Posted at 7:07 PM, Apr 17, 2024
and last updated 9:38 PM, Apr 17, 2024

7:30 p.m. - Henderson police are experiencing a 911 outage as well, which is affecting calls from landlines and cell phones.
However, they state the text to 911 feature is still functional and Rapid SOS is still working.
There is no estimated time for the system to be fully restored.

7 p.m. - Some outages could be impacting your ability to call 911.

According to Las Vegas police, 911 calls from landlines are not working, as of 7 p.m. on Wednesday night.

They add there is no estimated time for when that could be restored.

If you call 911 from a mobile number, operators will be able to see your number and call you back right away.

"Please do not attempt to call 911 to check," police said in a social media post. "Please keep our 911 system available for life-threatening emergencies."

Non-emergency calls are not impact by the outage.

If you have a non-emergency call, you can still contact police at (702) 828-3111.

The Text 911 feature is still working. You can learn more about that here.

Copyright 2024 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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The only way I can see that this can be possible is the States are using a centralized network. They need to break up the network direct links, and have a hub that transfers updates to servers that do not control local or State systems.

Stupid to have everything connected like this; one good virus and thar she goes.
 
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