3:39 PM: Just tweeted by Seattle Police, “911 seems to be down through the region. Please call the non-emergency line at 206-625-5011 for Seattle-based emergencies until it comes back online.”
4:11 PM: According to a text message from AlertSeattle, you also can call 206-583-2111. Texting 911 also seems to work. AlertSeattle says the problem is being worked on.
5:10 PM: Back up, say law-enforcement agencies, so you can use 911 again – but only if you really need to.
Just got an emergency broadcast alert on my phone re: 911 outage. DId a google search for any other reports of this in the past 24 hours and only see West Seattle Blog and King 5 in the results. West Seattle Blog beat King by 20 minutes. Love that our little hyper-local blog is more on top of things than the regional media.
The only reason im looking at the news is that my phone was beeping loud as frick lol
I got the loud phone notice, an email to each of my email addresses, a call to the fax machine and still none of those things beat the WSB to the punch with this info.
Is the King County 911 working on the S side of Roxbury? (Unincorporated King County?)
FYI, not everything south of Roxbury is unincorporated King County, although we’re frequently treated that way – even by police and city agencies. The area south of Roxbury and west of 30th is within Seattle city limits – Arbor Heights, for example.
fyi the border is Rox only until 30th, where it turns south and travels Seola to the water.
I get so many scam calls and hangups and Robo calls that I thought this was just another one of those. I hope nobody is disadvantaged in an emergency while 911 is out.
This alert came through via the emergency services broadcast and should have appeared (visually and aurally) distinct from a scam text message. If your device didn’t present this alert as such then I’d think about looking into an alternative.
Are total number of legitimate 911 calls per hour known to the public? Just curious how many this could have effected on average.
Anyone know why the alerts won’t stop? I’m getting them every few minutes!
The only problem with this alert which was kind of a big problem was that it was an alert with the phone number other than 911 and I had no way to copy and paste or screenshot that phone number it was only there during the alert and I had no way to actually note the number except for the moment that it was on my screen so if it was a 911 event I would have had no choice but to call 911
Most phones will let you swipe down on the home screen to see your alerts.
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