Pastor Dewey Moede: If a society can not provide basic services for the people it has failed………..Seconds count to save lives!!!!!!! Shame on us for allowing this to happen! This also shows a lack of respect for all First responders. We musty put our full support behind them to be able to to their Heroic work.
I have had to run down a passing Albuquerque police car, yelling the officer to stop! He did and answered our call for help in our neighborhood. 911 did not answer, but he did!
USA Today Reports
Just after lunchtime on June 18, Massachusetts’ leaders discovered that the statewide 911 system was down.
A scramble to handle the crisis was on.
Police texted out administrative numbers that callers could use, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu gave outage updates at a press conference outlining plans for the Celtics’ championship parade, and local officials urged people to summon help by pulling red fire alarm boxes.
About 7 million people went roughly two hours with no 911 service. Such crashes have become more of a feature than a bug in the nation’s fragmented emergency response system.
Outages have hit at least eight states this year. They’re emblematic of problems plaguing emergency communications due, in part, to wide disparities in the systems’ age and capabilities, and funding of 911 systems across the country. More Here