PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — For the past 16 years, Erika Madrigal has been a dispatcher at Portland’s Bureau of Emergency Communications. She has one piece of advice for people who call in distress. “We ...

Knowing when to call 911 and when to use a non-emergency number can save lives. Avoid diverting resources needed in actual emergencies.

The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA) announced that the intermittent outages with the Next-Generation 911 (NG911) system across the Commonwealth have been resolved. Anyone experiencing ...

According to an emergency alert sent by the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency shortly before 3:30 p.m. July 11, the commonwealth "is experiencing a statewide intermittent 911 outage." Anyone ...

NORRISTOWN – The Montgomery County Department of Public Safety directed a non-emergency phone number to residents in need of assistance amid an “intermittent 911 outage” affecting Pennsylvania on ...

Indianapolis non-emergency line phone number and when to use it instead of calling 911. Dealing resulting in death case leads to 35 year sentence for Noblesville man 'As a dealer you want the people ...

According to an emergency alert sent by the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency the afternoon of July 11, the commonwealth "is experiencing a statewide intermittent 911 outage." “Anyone who has ...

Most of Louisiana lost the ability to call 911, the nation's universal emergency response number, for several hours Thursday after 911 fiber-optic lines were cut in Mississippi. Law enforcement ...