{"id":6766,"date":"2018-12-28T05:24:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T13:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=6766"},"modified":"2018-12-28T05:24:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T13:24:28","slug":"9-1-1-service-restored-to-suncomm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/9-1-1-service-restored-to-suncomm\/","title":{"rendered":"9-1-1 Service Restored to SunComm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Emergency\ncalls to 9-1-1 are again directly reaching the SunComm center that serves\nseveral first responder agencies in Yakima County.&nbsp; On Thursday evening, an outage that\noriginated with CenturyLink resulted in SunComm switching to a backup phone\nnumber.&nbsp; Emergencies could also be\nreported during the outage by texting 9-1-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\noutage affected 9-1-1 calling capabilities in multiple western states as well\nas other internet-based services in several areas of the U.S.&nbsp; At about 9:45 pm on Thursday, CenturyLink\nposted on its Twitter feed that, &#8220;CenturyLink engineers have identified a network element that was\nimpacting customer services and are addressing the issue in order to fully\nrestore services.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the outage, people in Yakima County served by SunComm were directed to report emergencies by calling 509-457-0207. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional information will be provided if it becomes available. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/9-1-1-Restored-News-Release.pdf\">9-1-1 Restored &#8211; News Release<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/9-1-1-Restored-News-Release.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency calls to 9-1-1 are again directly reaching the SunComm center that serves several first responder agencies in Yakima County.&nbsp; On Thursday evening, an outage that originated with CenturyLink resulted in SunComm switching to a backup phone number.&nbsp; Emergencies could also be reported during the outage by texting 9-1-1. The outage affected 9-1-1 calling capabilities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6768,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6766\/revisions\/6768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}