Mayor Zohran Mamdani has shed light on last week's 911 outage in the Bronx, which resulted in hundreds of calls not going through in the pre-dawn hours of the morning. Officials have said many of the 911 calls made throughout the morning outage managed to get rerouted to additional call centers, but several hundred callers were not able to connect with an operator.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has shed light on last week's 911 outage in the Bronx, which resulted in hundreds of calls not going through in the pre-dawn hours of the morning.
Officials have said many of the 911 calls made throughout the morning outage managed to get rerouted to additional call centers, but several hundred callers were not able to connect with an operator.
"What we found is that a significant number of the calls that were coming in over the course of that period of time were being rerouted to another part of the 911 system," Mamdani said.
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani has shed light on last week's 911 outage in the Bronx, which resulted in hundreds of calls not going through in the pre-dawn hours of the morning. Officials have said many of the 911 calls made throughout the morning outage managed to get rerouted to additional call centers, but several hundred callers were not able to connect with an operator. "What we found is that a significant number of the calls that were coming in over the course of that period of time were being rerouted to another part of the 911 system," Mamdani said.
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