Pennsylvania Emergency Management warns of 911 outages
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The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency issued an alert to cellphones across the state that 911 centers may be experiencing intermittent outages, though local dispatch centers reported not having any issues. Supervisors at the 911 centers in Washington, Greene and Fayette Counties all ...
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