{"id":505693,"date":"2026-10-23T19:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T19:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/505693\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T19:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T19:46:08","slug":"oakland-911-system-restored-investigation-underway-after-police-find-cut-cables-kion-central-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/505693\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland 911 system restored, investigation underway after police find cut cables \u2013 KION Central Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Tim  Fang<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">911 service in Oakland has been fully restored after police said copper wire theft and damaged fiber optic lines led to an outage that began Wednesday night and continued for over 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around 8:30 a.m. Friday, the city said all phone service to all city systems is back online, after crews with the city and AT&amp;T worked through the night to perform repairs to damaged infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe City extends our strongest gratitude to our partners at the Alameda County Sheriff\u2019s Office for their support while repairs were completed,\u201d city officials posted on social media. \u201cThe City will continue to work with AT&amp;T to harden critical infrastructure and strengthen backup systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sanfrancisco\/news\/oakland-911-system-down-october-2026-calls-rerouted-alameda-county\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">issues began at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday<\/a>, when dispatchers at the police department noticed the Computer-Aided dispatch (CAD) system froze and displayed an error message. Dispatchers tried both emergency and non-emergency lines and found no service to all phone lines, internet or CAD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response, 911 calls were transferred to the Alameda County Sheriff\u2019s Office and police dispatchers were relocated to the sheriff\u2019s office and the Oakland Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, both police and AT&amp;T said both copper and fiber optic lines were cut, and police were investigating the damage as a criminal act.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/copper-wire-fiber-optic-wire-damage.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Copper, fiber optic wire damage \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/>Images of cut copper and fiber optic wires provided by AT&amp;T on Oct. 22, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                AT&amp;T<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a perfect example of theft leading to something far more severe and serious that could result in people losing their lives,\u201d Police Chief James Beere said at a news conference Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Police urged the public to report any suspicious activity or anyone seen cutting or removing cable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Tim Fang 911 service in Oakland has been fully restored after police said copper wire theft and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-505693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505693","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=505693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}