{"id":186349,"date":"2026-02-20T18:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/186349\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T18:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:08:07","slug":"911-goes-down-across-l-a-county-sheriffs-department-areas-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/186349\/","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":2,"featured_media":186350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[337,87760,87761,87763,31336,77476,11056,48,52,51,47,137,50,49,1554,4842,31830,2637,3025,11936,87762],"class_list":{"0":"post-186349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-call","9":"tag-department-area","10":"tag-emergency-coverage","11":"tag-exact-location","12":"tag-friday-morning","13":"tag-jurisdiction","14":"tag-l-a-county-sheriff","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-la-headlines","17":"tag-la-news","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-los-angeles-county","20":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","21":"tag-los-angeles-news","22":"tag-name","23":"tag-outage","24":"tag-platform","25":"tag-sheriff","26":"tag-statement","27":"tag-system","28":"tag-third-party-public-safety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186349","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=186349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}