April 22nd, 2024 by WCBC Radio

Merely the installation of a light pole resulted in 911 service outages across three states last week. It was the latest in a series of 911 outages across the country.  Recently, Allegany County also had a brief outage to its emergency call center, but Allegany County Emergency Management Director Jim Pyles says our area has excellent backup sources in such cases…

During the recent county outage that lasted less than 2 hours, Pyles says the county system continued to handle emergencies…