Lyon County and Douglas dispatch and sheriff's office lines down, 911 calls being routed to Carson City
UPDATE 1:48PM: All phone lines affecting Lyon County and Douglas County dispatch are now back up and working, said Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong. The cause of the outage is unknown at this time.
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UPDATE: From Douglas County: the regular non-emergency number is back up and running.
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As of Sunday morning, some phones for the Douglas County and Lyon County Sheriff's Office, including dispatch are down. 911 lines in Douglas County were not affected but other lines were down.
In Lyon County, 911 calls are not being received at this time. If you have an emergency dial 911 and you will be routed to Carson City Sheriff's Office.
Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong noted that there are phone line problems affecting Douglas County and parts of Reno.
"As of this morning we are staffed up completely in our center and have outside dispatchers operating out of Carson City as well," said Furlong. "We are monitoring this widespread outage."
From LCSO Dispatch/911 Communications Center via Facebook: Please be patient and thorough with your location. They are not as familiar with our county as our own dispatchers are so please make sure to be accurate and provide all extra info they need! There is no ETA from AT&T as to when they will be fixed. This is a problem affecting other counties as well. We will post updates as they become available. Go here for updates.
We will update as more information becomes available.