Estimated read time: 1-2 minutes
This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story.
SALT LAKE CITY — The 911 connection issues that plagued law enforcement agencies across the state Saturday have been resolved, departments are reporting Sunday morning.
Multiple cities, including Salt Lake City, St. George and Provo, reported problems with callers reaching 911 Saturday, asking them instead to contact nonemergency lines in the meantime.
The problem affected multiple carriers intermittently throughout the day.
St. George police attributed local problems to a Verizon Wireless power outage. Summit County suggested its problem may involve Verizon as well.
Lisa Burnette, executive director of Salt Lake City 911, said on Saturday that the problem was intermittent and began about 9:30 a.m.
Dispatch centers including Bountiful, Summit County, Provo and Salt Lake City had been affected. Some carriers automatically roll over to the nonemergency line if they can't get through to 911, Burnette said, but not all of them.
The 911 issue had been resolved, so it is indeed a good morning 🌄! Please keep the non-emergency numbers handy, just in case there is an emergency with the emergency system😳. Thank your for your techie understanding😄.
— Layton City (@LaytonPIO) February 23, 2020
Good news, the Verizon 911 outage has been resolved.
— Layton Police (@laytonpolice) February 23, 2020
***UPDATE***SLC911 is cautiously optimistic that the mobile phone networks are operational and calls placed to 9-1-1 from Sandy residents are reaching the system. We will continue to send updates as needed.
— Sandy City (@sandycityutah) February 23, 2020
Authorities suggest that residents keep nonemergency numbers handy in case of future problems.
The following are nonemergency numbers for various affected areas:
- Bountiful: 801-298-6000
- Centerville: 801-298-6000
- Cottonwood Heights: 801-743-7000
- Davis County Sheriff’s Office: 801-451-4150
- Layton: 801-497-8300
- North Salt Lake: 801-298-6000
- Provo: 801-852-6210
- Salt Lake City or Sandy: 801-799-3000, option 7
- St. George: 435–627–4300
- Summit County: 435-615-3601
- West Bountiful: 801-298-6000
- Woods Cross: 801-298-6000
