{"id":702872,"date":"2010-03-27T14:30:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T18:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003806"},"modified":"2010-03-28T02:41:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T06:41:07","slug":"att-wireless-directs-salt-lake-city-911-calls-to-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/702872","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T Wireless Directs Salt Lake City 911 Calls To Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/police_truck-thumb-240x160-37248.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>For some reason that no one has been able to figure out yet, on Thursday night, all 911 calls that AT&#038;T Wireless customers in the Salt Lake City, Utah made area ended up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/700019682\/ATT-911-call-glitch-corrected.html\">routed to dispatchers in Seattle<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police were made aware of the problem around 7 p.m. and asked Seattle dispatchers to transfer all calls back to Salt Lake City. But Salt Lake police detective Dennis McGowan said the issue &#8220;did not impact us at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t have any 911 calls from the AT&#038;T cell phones that we&#8217;re aware of,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We became aware of the problem, we called AT&#038;T and confirmed that it was occurring, but it did not impact our operations whatsoever.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re glad that the mixup didn&#8217;t hurt anyone or affect emergency services all that much, but it&#8217;s a frightening prospect that all emergency calls could just shift to another city and no one knows how or why.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/700019682\/ATT-911-call-glitch-corrected.html\">AT&#038;T 911 call glitch corrected; reason still a mystery<\/a> [Deseret News] <br \/>\n <em>(Thanks, Brian!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason that no one has been able to figure out yet, on Thursday night, all 911 calls that AT&#038;T Wireless customers in the Salt Lake City, Utah made area ended up routed to dispatchers in Seattle. Police were made aware of the problem around 7 p.m. and asked Seattle dispatchers to transfer all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2WQE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}