A network failure Mon. knocked out landline E-911 service for abo...
A network failure Mon. knocked out landline E-911 service for about 4,000 Verizon customers in eastern Washington County, Pa. Customers in Bentleyville, Ellsworth, Somerset and Fallowfield lost E-911 Mon. evening, as efforts to find and repair the network fault…
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slowed because Verizon’s E-911 service rides partly on trunks leased from FairPoint Communications, according to the county’s public safety dir., Jeffrey Yates. Callers to 911 got a fast busy signal. The failure didn’t affect cellular E-911 nor emergency responders’ local 7-digit numbers. Neither were regular phone services affected. Verizon and FairPoint technicians rigged temporary circuits, restoring E-911 across most affected areas by Tues. morning, officials said, but it was unclear when the cause would be found and repaired. The county is in western Pa., south of Pittsburgh.