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911 for LA County Sheriff's Department system restored after overnight outage
An overnight outage of the 911 system affected the LA County Sheriff's jurisdiction.
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An overnight 911 outage throughout the L.A. County Sheriff's jurisdiction has been restored. It went down at about 6 p.m. Thursday before returning online about 13 hours later.
Why it matters: The outage forced crews to redirect calls to local patrol stations' business lines to limit the impact on emergency responses. At 7 a.m. Friday, the Sheriff's Department said the problem was fixed. The department hasn't said what caused the outage, nor could it immediately determine the extent of its impact.
The backstory: Last year, the Sheriff's Department experienced problems with a separate dispatch system. It crashed about a month after the Palisades and Eaton fires, forcing 911 operators to write notes and use radio or phone to relay information to deputies. Sheriff Robert Luna has said in the past that the department needs to upgrade the decades-old system.
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