911 issues fixed in the Maritimes following Tuesday morning outage
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911 emergency calling in all three Maritime provinces has been fixed following service issues Tuesday morning.
911 emergency calling in all three Maritime provinces has been fixed following service issues Tuesday morning.
The Nova Scotia RCMP first warned of the issue in a tweet just after 7 a.m.
An emergency alert was issued in the province, telling people to call their local police, fire and EHS services in the event of an emergency.
The New Brunswick RCMP, as well as police departments in Miramichi, Fredericton and Saint John, were also experiencing technical issues with 911.
The Miramichi Police Force said calls from landlines were not going through, while calls from cell phones were.
The PEI RCMP 911 system was also affected by the outage.
During the outage, police departments provided alternate phone numbers residents could call.
