Local Government
By Chambana Sun |
Mar 8, 2024
METCAD 9-1-1 services have been restored following a brief system outage on March 7, 2024. The outage, which affected multiple areas in the state, including Champaign County, was resolved by AT&T, who is still investigating the root cause of the issue. According to reports, the outage was due to a failure within AT&T's infrastructure.Upon discovering the outage, METCAD immediately activated its emergency outage plan and transferred its 9-1-1 lines to Vermilion County 9-1-1. However, Vermilion County's system was also affected, prompting METCAD to reach out to Macon County...