For those who’ve been wondering (me!) how the emergency 9-1-1 system could possibly disappear for seven hours, Doug Esser at the Associated Press has looked into it and found:
Two days later they still don’t know. Or at least they aren’t saying.
CenturyLink, which provides 9-1-1 service here, has blamed it on an unnamed third-party vendor.
Our news partner The Seattle Times has Doug’s story here.