Widespread 9-1-1 Outage

[Thunderbolt]

Emergency 9-1-1 telephone service is currently down in the following Michigan counties:

• Clinton
• Eaton
• Ingham
• Ionia
• Jackson
• Montcalm

Residents are urge to call their local police and fire departments if needed, on phone numbers listed in their local directories. Unknown as to what the cause is behind this widespread failure at this time.

Yours truly,

Ron

 

[rdale]

Hillsdale too. It's an AT&T thing.

 

[Utah_Viper]

Something similar in Iowa a month or so ago... they had Amtuer Radio at street corners to be available and had activated Races/Ares

 

[KB0VWG]

Could be a fiber cut

 

[talkpair]

Could be a fiber cut

or the check bounced

 

[rdale]

I'd hope it takes more than a single fiber cut to eliminate 911 service for a 6-10 county area...

https://nwschat.weather.gov/p.php?pid=201006100304-KGRR-WOUS43-TOEGRR

 

[Thunderbolt]

You can now add all of Hillsdale and Livingston Counties to the list.

 

[OsloViking1975]

Are this counties back up now?

 

[rdale]

Yes, about 4am.

 

[eaf1956]

All their eggs in one basket

I'd hope it takes more than a single fiber cut to eliminate 911 service for a 6-10 county area...

https://nwschat.weather.gov/p.php?pid=201006100304-KGRR-WOUS43-TOEGRR

This is what happens when they put all their eggs in one basket. Same thing will happen with all these STATEWIDE trunked systems one day.

 

[rdale]

This is what happens when they put all their eggs in one basket.

True. You do need phone lines to have a 911 system. Not sure that's "one" basket

Same thing will happen with all these STATEWIDE trunked systems one day.

No, they all are capable of running on their own in case of an infrastructure break.

 

[garryd451]

Then

If they are capable of running alone, did they do that in this inciddent?

 

[zerg901]

Statewide TRS will lose 1 tower (due to a tornado or bulldozer perhaps) and everyone will wonder why a whole countys worth of radios became useless exactly at the time when they were needed the most. Peter sz

 

[rdale]

If they are capable of running alone, did they do that in this inciddent?

There was no problem with the MPSCS system. This was a 911 issue.

If the statewide TRS goes down, every county would be on its own tower still. So they can talk back and forth to each other - just can't talk to anyone not on that tower.