911 outage reported in Pennsylvania caused by IT issue, governor says

The 911 outage reported across Pennsylvania Friday afternoon was restored, the state’s emergency management agency announced Saturday morning.

In a post on X shortly after midnight Saturday, the agency said, “An investigation into what caused intermittent outages will continue, and we will update you on that as soon as we can. We worked with counties to fully test that the system is operational. Please do not call 911 for testing purposes; leave lines open for true emergencies.”

The issue was originally reported as a “statewide intermittent 911 outage” through a wireless emergency alert. However, during a press conference Friday evening, Pennsylvania Emergency Management Director Randy Padfield emphasized this isn’t an outage. 

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