{"id":603944,"date":"2026-02-20T17:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/603944\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T17:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:50:14","slug":"911-goes-down-across-l-a-county-sheriffs-department-areas-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/603944\/","title":{"rendered":"911 goes down across L.A. County Sheriff&#8217;s Department areas overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Los Angeles County\u2019s 911 system was down overnight before coming back online Friday morning, the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department said.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday, the department was <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LHSLASD\/status\/2024716795039683067\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">notified of a service disruption<\/a> affecting the Vesta System, a third-party public safety call-handling platform used to manage 911 calls within the Sheriff\u2019s Department\u2019s jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>During the outage, 911 calls were automatically rerouted to patrol station business lines to maintain emergency coverage. Some <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PalmdaleSheriff\/status\/2024709705126621272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">individual stations<\/a> were able to accept 911 text messages. When texting, residents were instructed to include their exact location, the nature of the emergency and their name.<\/p>\n<p>About 7:20 a.m. on Friday, the system was fully restored, the department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Vesta System is not owned or maintained by the Sheriff\u2019s Department,\u201d the statement said. \u201cDepartment personnel continue to work with the third-party telecommunications provider to determine the root cause of the outage and identify corrective measures to help prevent this issue from occurring again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles County\u2019s 911 system was down overnight before coming back online Friday morning, the Los Angeles County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":603945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,13136,259926,259927,259929,3048,97349,51082,2961,224,6080,5337,5204,14482,12645,12498,11004,443,259928],"class_list":["post-603944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-call","tag-department-area","tag-emergency-coverage","tag-exact-location","tag-friday-morning","tag-jurisdiction","tag-l-a-county-sheriff","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-losangeles","tag-name","tag-outage","tag-platform","tag-sheriff","tag-statement","tag-system","tag-third-party-public-safety"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116104228139040785","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}