[EAS] Resolved- Nationwide AT&T Mobility 9-1-1 outage
Sean Donelan
sean at donelan.com
Wed Mar 8 23:21:27 CST 2017
These are just the alerts sent using WEA or EAS/NWS. There were also many
twitter, facebook alerts as well as subscription based alerting systems.
Washoe County, NV - three attempts to send a WEA/EAS message
Civil Danger Warning (CDW)
911 pronounced as Nine Hundred and Eleven
First combined EAS and WEA sent as a "Severe" severity and
telephone numbers as digits
Second WEA message (not EAS) sent as an "Extreme" severity and
telephone numbers as digits
Third WEA message (not EAS) spells out "nine one one" and partial
phone number "three three four 2121"
State of New York - all clear message
Local Area Emergency (LAE)
Spaced out 9 1 1
Disregard previous message
Douglas County MN - via National Weather Service
911 Telephone Outage Emergency (TOE)
Spaced out 9 1 1
State of West Virginia - via National Weather Service (multiple)
911 Telephone Outage Emergency (TOE)
Spaced out 9 1 1 - call alternate number/use alternate phone
Benton County IA - via National Weather Service
911 Telephone Outage Emergency (TOE)
A different 911 outage. This affected landline telephones in
Urbana and Shellsburg, so the advice was to use a cell phone or alternate
emergency number.
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