When you dial 911, you expect your call to go through and for help to arrive quickly. But California's 50-year-old emergency notification network is outdated; lacks modern capabilities like text, ...

LOS ANGELES - After years of watching Los Angeles' 911 system buckle under routine demand, the founders of Harm.AI say they are trying to solve a narrower, stubborn piece of the problem - the calls ...

The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency plans to pay a Centre County firm $100,000 to conduct an outside review of what caused a July statewide outage impacting the 911 system. The upgraded Next ...

An overnight 911 system outage affecting the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's jurisdiction has been restored. The Sheriff's Department said its system went down at about 6:02 p.m. Thursday, ...

Tucson's problematic 911 emergency call system will be examined Tuesday, as the City Council talks about the issue in both closed and open session. The new 911 emergency system, installed in late May, ...

Update (9:15 p.m.) - Officials in an update this evening said the issue affecting 911 systems has been resolved. The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office reports that the state 911 system is ...

ARRESTED AFTER REFUSING TO LEAVE THE PREMISES. CALIFORNIA’S OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES IN THE HOT SEAT AT THE STATE CAPITOL TODAY AS IT TRIES TO SCRAP A NEW 911 SYSTEM THAT SO FAR HAS COST TAXPAYERS ...

Following years of delays and technical issues plaguing the state’s overhaul of its aging 9-1-1 system, officials with the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) outlined a plan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seminole County’s emergency 9-1-1 system is experiencing connectivity issues affecting Verizon customers, with neighboring ...

Law enforcement agencies report that 911 service has been restored after a fiber line was cut in Mississippi, leading to a four-hour outage across that state and parts of Louisiana on Thursday. The ...