911 service restored in many areas after several states hit with outages

Emergency call service has been restored in some areas where issues were reported from Wednesday into Thursday, but the cause of the failure has still not been identified.

The entire state of South Dakota experienced 911 emergency call line outages, as well as parts of Nebraska, Nevada and Texas. Officials in South Dakota and Nevada told Reuters early Thursday morning that service has been restored. 

Local law enforcement used social media to inform residents that emergency 911-calls were not working, where reports at one time said as many as eight states had been affected. Other states mentioned were Florida, Kentucky, Iowa and Wisconsin. That led many social media followers to chat of a possible "purge."

It got to the point that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department tweeted that they were aware of outages across the country, and that their 911 system was working fine but would continue to monitor its availability. 

Here are reports of the four states that, in fact, lost 911 coverage during Wednesday night through Thursday morning in some, or all, parts of their borders. Two are still experiencing issues. 

South Dakota:

The entire statewide emergency calling system in South Dakota experienced an outage Wednesday evening, the Rapid City Police Department said.

"911 SERVICES DOWN STATEWIDE: South Dakota State Radio has advised us that 911 services are currently down statewide," the department announced on X.

Service was restored by 11:59 p.m., according to a tweet by the U.S. Emergency Alert account @ENSAlerts.

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A person dials 911 from a cell phone. (iStock)

Nevada: 

Cities as large as Las Vegas, Nevada also experienced widespread outages.

"Dial 911 on a mobile device, and we will be able to see your number and will call you back right away," the Las Vegas Police Department (LVMPD) said. "911 calls from landlines are NOT working at the moment. There is no estimate for restoration."

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department announced the 911 outage on Wednesday evening. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)

At 12:15 a.m. on Thursday, the LVMPD announced that 911 phone service had been restored.

The city announced they had called everyone who had attempted to call during the outage.

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A 911-call center answers an emergency call.  (Tony Giberson/tgiberson@pnj.com / USA TODAY)

Texas: 

Multiple cities in Texas also had outages, including Del Rio and Kilgore.

The Del Rio Police Department said in a Facebook post the outage was an issue with the "carrier" and the city's systems.

"We are aware of an outage with a major cellular carrier affecting the ability to reach 911," the department announced. "This issue is with the carrier and not the City of Del Rio systems."

The department has not provided any updates since the post.

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Kilgore Police Department posted on Facebook it was experiencing intermittent outages, and urged residents to call 903-983-1559 ext 1 to report any emergencies.

Nebraska:

Officials announced a "partial statewide outage" of 911 service. 

The Dundy County Sheriff's Office reported outages on Facebook Wednesday night, but provided an update early Thursday morning that service had been restored.  

According to local KETV, Douglas, Sarpy, Washington, Cass, Dodge, Lincoln, Buffalo, Howard and Kearney had their service back up and running by early Thursday morning, 

Reuters contributed to this report.