Emergency lines have gone down in several US states after an IT outage sparked chaos across the globe.

In the event of a telephone outage, some Pennsylvania communities have an old-school yet vital failsafe to alert first ...

Alpena County 911 was forced to direct its emergency phone calls to Roscommon County 911 after its system went down early ...

UPDATE (5:25 p.m.): George County Emergency Management has confirmed that its 911 lines are down. “The 911 phone lines are down in the dispatch center from a Nation wide outage,” a GCEM Facebook post ...

Many Verizon and Xfinity wireless and internet customers experienced an extended outage Friday night. The problems began shortly before 4 p.m. and lasted until about 8:30 p.m. The outage stretched ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — Emergency 911 services in Beaumont will remain fully operational during a planned maintenance outage that will temporarily disable non-emergency phone lines for Police, Fire and EMS ...

UPDATE 10/11: The Adams County Department of Emergency Services posted on Facebook that the issues have been resolved. JUNIATA COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — An outage is impacting some Brightspeed customers ...

911 systems in Louisiana and Mississippi went down Thursday AT&T confirmed fiber line damage caused the outage Services were restored by late afternoon, officials said Local agencies shared ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - The Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office said it’s currently experiencing a phone outage that has affected the non-emergency and administrative lines. LCSO said 911 lines are not ...

Lafayette Parish 911 phone lines were restored following a major disruption across the state. The Lafayette Consolidated Government and the Lafayette Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency ...