Issue resolved after nationwide AT&T outage affected 911 calls in western Washington
Jul 2, 2019, 7:25 AM
(Dyer Oxley, MyNorthwest)
(Dyer Oxley, MyNorthwest)
A nationwide AT&T outage has been resolved after an issue impacted 911 calls made through cellphones Tuesday morning in western Washington, officials said.
Kitsap County, the Bellingham Police Department and the Mason County Sheriff’s Office reported outages.
AT&T later confirmed that storage was restored.
There is a nationwide issue with AT&T customers not being able to call 911. If you try to call 911 and cannot get through, please call our non emergency line at 360-426-4441 and state it is an emergency. Thank you for your cooperation and we will update as soon as we get any word pic.twitter.com/TBSLR1xvYV
— Mason County Sheriff (@MasonCoSheriff) July 2, 2019
Reports of possible Nationwide AT&T mobile outage when calling 911. If unable to get through to 911 from an AT&T cell phone, try using an alternate phone. Will update with more information as we receive it.
— KITSAP 911 (@Cencom911) July 2, 2019
AT&T is experiencing interruptions or degradation to wireless 911 calls and/or wireless phase one/two location information. We will update when service returns to normal.
— Bellingham Police (@BellinghamPD) July 2, 2019
