Sunday, July 10, 2016

Montgomery County 911 lines go down

Montgomery County's 911 emergency line, and non-emergency police lines are temporarily down, according to the Montgomery County Police Department. They are advising citizens seeking police help to call their district station directly, which can be found online. 240-773-6700 is the number for the 2nd District station in Bethesda.

For fire and rescue, call your closest station directly, using this site.

No cause for the outage has been reported yet.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Restored at 1:40 AM (10:40 AM Dyer Standard Time).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/911-system-fails-in-montgomery-late-sunday-night/2016/07/11/3d8b33e0-4721-11e6-bdb9-701687974517_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-moreheds_montgomery911-1am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

You're welcome.

Robert Dyer said...

10:54: I broke the story. I also retweeted the announcement that the system was restored within about a minute of it being tweeted. Nice try to hold the fort until your guys can take over, but no cigar. The Post and others were behind me.

Anonymous said...

@ 8:06AM Thinks Mrs Dyer is a MILF. Fanboy's Dyer love is all encompassing.

Anonymous said...

How did you find out about it, Dyer?

Anonymous said...

He found out when he tried to call 911 about the piles of snow from last winter

Anonymous said...

I told him. Happy now?