US FCC investigating outages of 911 emergency call line in four states

WASHINGTON, D.C.: A widespread outage of the 911 emergency call line occurred across South Dakota and parts of Nebraska, Nevada, and Texas late April 17.

Without identifying the cause of the failure, South Dakota, Nevada, and Las Vegas officials said 911 services had been restored.

The next day, in a post on X, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said that it was investigating reports of outages.

The Department of Homeland Security has warned as they have migrated to digital systems based on Internet Protocol standards, there are increased risks of cyber-attacks against 911 services.

On April 17 evening, the Department of Public Safety in South Dakota, police in Las Vegas, the Nebraska county of Douglas, and the Texas city of Del Rio all reported 911 outages.