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  <title>The Mandelbear's Musings</title>
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    <name>mdlbear</name>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-04-27:505737:1651884</id>
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    <title>PSA: WA Emergency Numbers</title>
    <published>2018-12-29T02:10:20Z</published>
    <updated>2018-12-29T02:10:20Z</updated>
    <category term="911"/>
    <category term="outage"/>
    <category term="curmudgeon"/>
    <category term="psa"/>
    <dw:mood>didactic</dw:mood>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt; From &lt;a href="https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/911-service-restored-after-widespread-centurylink-outage/281-1e461abb-8b3c-49e2-8a57-764e39466213"&gt;king5.com &lt;/a&gt;:

&lt;p&gt; In case of an emergency and you can't get through by dialing 911, you can
    dial the following numbers for dispatch centers:  

&lt;blockquote style="white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Chelan/Douglas County 911&lt;/strong&gt;

Countywide 911 Center for Police and Fire
(509) 663-9911

&lt;strong&gt;Clallam County 911&lt;/strong&gt;

Countywide 911 Center for Police and Fire
360-417-2259/2459 or 360-417-4970

&lt;strong&gt;Grays Harbor 911&lt;/strong&gt;

Countywide 911 Center for Police and Fire
(800) 281-6944

&lt;strong&gt;Island County 911&lt;/strong&gt;

Countywide 911 Center for Police and Fire
(360) 678-6116

&lt;strong&gt;Jefferson County 911&lt;/strong&gt;

Countywide 911 Center for Police and Fire
360-385-3831 or 360-344-9779 EXT. 0 or text 911

&lt;strong&gt;King County 911&lt;/strong&gt;

Bothell Police (425) 486-1254
Enumclaw Police (360) 417-2259
Lake Forrest Park Police (425) 486-1254
Issaquah Police (425) 837- 3200
Redmond Police (425) 556-2500
Snoqualmie Police (425) 888-3333
Seattle Police (206) 625-5011
Seattle Fire (206) 583-2111

&lt;em&gt;Norcom (425) 577-5656&lt;/em&gt;

    Fire Departments – Bellevue FD, Bothell FD, Duvall FD, Eastside Fire and
    Rescue, Fall City FD, Kirkland FD, Mercer Island FD, Northshore FD,
    Redmond FD, Shoreline FD, Skykomish FD, Snoqualmie FD, Snoqualmie Pass
    Fire and Rescue and Woodinville Fire and Rescue

    Police Departments – Bellevue PD, Clyde Hill PD, Medina PD, Kirkland PD,
    Mercer Island PD and Normandy Park Police. 

&lt;em&gt;Valley Com (253) 852-2121&lt;/em&gt;

    Fire Departments - Valley Regional Fire Authority (Algona, Pacific and
    Auburn), South King Fire and Rescue (Federal Way and Des Moines), Puget
    Sound Regional Fire Authority (Kent, Seatac, Covington and Maple Valley),
    Tukwila FD, Renton FD, Burien /Normandy Park FD, Skyway Fire, Mountain
    View Fire and Rescue, Palmer Selleck Fire Districts, Vashon Island Fire
    and Rescue, Enumclaw FD, King County Airport (Boeing Field) and King
    County Medic One

    Police Departments - Algona PD, Pacific PD, Auburn PD, Des Moines PD,
    Federal Way PD, Kent PD, Renton PD and Tukwila PD. 

&lt;em&gt;King County Sheriff’s Office (206) 296-3311&lt;/em&gt;

    Town of Beaux Arts, City of Burien, City of Carnation, City of Covington,
    City of Kenmore, King County Airport Police (Boeing Field), City of Maple
    Valley, King County Metro Transit, Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, City of
    Newcastle, City of Sammamish, City of Seatac, City of Shoreline, Town of
    Skykomish, Sound Transit and City of Woodinville. 

&lt;strong&gt;Kitsap County 911&lt;/strong&gt;

Countywide 911 Center for Police and Fire
(360)-308-5400

&lt;strong&gt;Kittitas County 911&lt;/strong&gt;

Lower County: 509 925 8534
Upper County: 509 674 2584, select 1, then select 1 for KITTCOM

&lt;strong&gt;Lewis County 911&lt;/strong&gt;

Countywide 911 Center for Police and Fire
(360) 740-1105

&lt;strong&gt;Mason County 911&lt;/strong&gt;

Countywide 911 Center for Police and Fire
(360) 426-4441

&lt;strong&gt;Pacific County 911&lt;/strong&gt;

Countywide 911 Center for Police and Fire
(360) 875-9397

&lt;strong&gt;Pierce County 911&lt;/strong&gt;

Countywide 911 Center for Police and Fire
(253) 798-4722

*Except Tacoma, Fircrest, Fife and Ruston -
 call Tacoma Fire Dispatch (253)627-0151

&lt;strong&gt;San Juan County 911&lt;/strong&gt;

Countywide 911 Center for Police and Fire
(360) 378-4151

&lt;strong&gt;Skagit County 911&lt;/strong&gt;

Countywide 911 Center for Police and Fire
(360) 428-3211

&lt;strong&gt;Snohomish County 911&lt;/strong&gt;

Countywide 911 Center for Police and Fire
(425) 407-3999

&lt;strong&gt;Thurston County 911&lt;/strong&gt;

Countywide 911 Center for Police and Fire
(360) 704-2740

&lt;strong&gt;Whatcom County 911&lt;/strong&gt;

Whatcom County Fire (360) 676-6814
Whatcom County Sheriff (360) 676-6911
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt; &lt;em&gt;Another fine post from
    &lt;a href="https://mdlbear.dreamwidth.org/tag/curmudgeon"&gt;The Computer Curmudgeon&lt;/a&gt; (also at
    &lt;a href="https://computer-curmudgeon.com/"&gt;computer-curmudgeon.com&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mdlbear&amp;ditemid=1651884" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-04-27:505737:1651542</id>
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    <title>PSA: Centurylink outage</title>
    <published>2018-12-28T22:02:55Z</published>
    <updated>2018-12-28T22:02:55Z</updated>
    <category term="curmudgeon"/>
    <category term="psa"/>
    <category term="outage"/>
    <category term="911"/>
    <dw:mood>grumpy</dw:mood>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
    <dw:reply-count>4</dw:reply-count>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt; Last night around 11pm I was awakened by an alert on my phone telling me
    that 911 service was down, and giving me an alternat number to call.  By
    morning, it was clear that it wasn't a local problem.  A quick search
    showed that the problem was caused by CenturyLink, which &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/CenturyLink/status/1078510441033195520"&gt;tweeted, blaming it on a&lt;/a&gt; &lt;q&gt;a network element that was impacting
    customer services&lt;/q&gt; and saying that they estimated it would be fixed in
    about four hours.

&lt;p&gt; It was more like twelve here on Whidbey Island, and some parts of the
    country are still (as of 2pm) offline, according to &lt;a href="https://outage.report/us/centurylink"&gt;Outage.Report&lt;/a&gt;.  The FCC
    is investigating.

&lt;p&gt; If you live in Washington, &lt;a href="https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/centurylink-service-outage-that-caused-911-failures-not-related-to-hacking/281-1e461abb-8b3c-49e2-8a57-764e39466213"&gt;king5.com&lt;/a&gt; has a handy list of numbers to call, by county.  (The news
    article also has auto-playing video - you may want to mute your speakers.)


&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://mdlbear.dreamwidth.org/1651542.html#cutid1"&gt;Notes &amp; links, as usual&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;p&gt; &lt;em&gt;Another fine post from
    &lt;a href="https://mdlbear.dreamwidth.org/tag/curmudgeon"&gt;The Computer Curmudgeon&lt;/a&gt; (also at
    &lt;a href="https://computer-curmudgeon.com/"&gt;computer-curmudgeon.com&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mdlbear&amp;ditemid=1651542" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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