PA EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY REVEALS CAUSE OF 911 OUTAGE

The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency is revealing the cause of the statewide 9-1-1 outage earlier this month.  PEMA says the 9-1-1 system went down on July 11th due to a defect in an operating system that was not related to a cyberattack.  The outage lasted several hours before crews were able to get the system back online.  The agency recommends residents save their county’s non-emergency contact number in the event of a future outage.