http://www.wgal.com/news/14968916/detail.html
For about an hour, York County 911 went down. Calls to the 911 trunk went unanswered, and the EAS was activated to instruct citizens to call a 1-800 number in an emergency, which would connect them to Lancaster County 911.
Strangely, the outage also affected radio communications for about 20 minutes. Radio calls between York County Control and fire, police, and EMS units could not occur.
News coverage explanations are sketchy, but is sounds like a contractor was working in a room containing the central electronics bank (CEB) and somehow shut power down to a number of (otherwise non-connected) components, including the 911 phone switch and the remotes for the fire, police, and EMS base stations.
While the new P25 system was not affected by this outage (no public safety users have yet been loaded onto the system) this leaves no question that implementation of the new system can come none too soon.
While York County is far from a metropolis, it is unacceptable that such a total failure occur. Hopefully, with the new building, new CAD, and the eventual new radio system, reliability will become more consistent with York's 911 system.
For about an hour, York County 911 went down. Calls to the 911 trunk went unanswered, and the EAS was activated to instruct citizens to call a 1-800 number in an emergency, which would connect them to Lancaster County 911.
Strangely, the outage also affected radio communications for about 20 minutes. Radio calls between York County Control and fire, police, and EMS units could not occur.
News coverage explanations are sketchy, but is sounds like a contractor was working in a room containing the central electronics bank (CEB) and somehow shut power down to a number of (otherwise non-connected) components, including the 911 phone switch and the remotes for the fire, police, and EMS base stations.
While the new P25 system was not affected by this outage (no public safety users have yet been loaded onto the system) this leaves no question that implementation of the new system can come none too soon.
While York County is far from a metropolis, it is unacceptable that such a total failure occur. Hopefully, with the new building, new CAD, and the eventual new radio system, reliability will become more consistent with York's 911 system.
