{"id":186236,"date":"2026-02-20T16:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/186236\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:01:08","slug":"911-outage-across-los-angeles-as-emergency-callers-forced-to-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/186236\/","title":{"rendered":"911 outage across Los Angeles as emergency callers forced to text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An outage struck the 911 system across Los Angeles Thursday \u2014 leaving some callers to text their emergencies or call patrol stations\u2019 business for help.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department confirmed to The Post that some stations\u2019 911 systems remained down as of Friday morning while others have been restored.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38551727\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/118856286-1.jpg\" alt=\"A Los Angeles Police patrol car with glowing light bar at night on Sunset Boulevard.\" class=\"wp-image-38551727\"  \/>A Los Angeles Police car with glowing light bar at night on Sunset Boulevard. Elliott \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday, \u201cthe Department was notified of an outage affecting the Vesta System, a third-party public safety call-handling platform\u2026 impacting 9-1-1 calls within the Sheriff\u2019s Department\u2019s jurisdiction,\u201d Deputy Daniel Dominguez<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/countywide-lasd-911-and-business-lines-experiencing-outage\/3850954\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> told NBC 4.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The department said it \u201cdeployed department electricians to assess and address the issue and are working closely with the third-party telecommunications provider to restore full service as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38551725\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/postinhouse-nypostinhouse-police-lights-police-13756129.jpg\" alt=\"Police car emergency lights, red and blue, visible at night.\" class=\"wp-image-38551725\"  \/>A general view of police car emergency lights as seen at night. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n<p>As a result, 911 calls were being re-routed to patrol station business lines. Some stations encouraged would-be callers to text 911 instead. <\/p>\n<p>The West Hollywood Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff\u2019s Stations said that 911 service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WestHollywoodSheriffsStation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">had been restored as of late Thursday night<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear what caused the outage.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department told the public that it was doing everything it could to maintain emergency response services despite the outage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate the community\u2019s understanding and want to reassure our residents that we are taking all necessary steps to maintain emergency response services while this issue is being resolved,\u201d the department wrote in a statement to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/la-county-911-outage-sheriffs-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> CBS News.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDepartment personnel are proactively planning for contingencies to ensure continuity of service and to limit any potential disruption to emergency response operations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An outage struck the 911 system across Los Angeles Thursday \u2014 leaving some callers to text their emergencies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4385,7,3978,48,52,51,47,50,49,4182,236,3586],"class_list":["post-186236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-4385","tag-california","tag-emergency","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-metro","tag-police","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}