From Firehouse.com: Some Salt Lake City AT&T carriers had a big problem yesterday when their 911 calls were mysteriously directed to an operator in Seattle, according to KSL-TV.
AT&T says the problem was fixed later that night, but it still doesn't know exactly what caused it.
"We were coming down from Farmington to drop my son off at school," resident Tony Sams told the new station. "We witnessed a hit-and-run incident. We dialed 911."
The 911 dispatcher's response when he gave her his location startled him when he found out he was calling Seattle.
Somehow, his iPhone had connected him with the emergency response center and he tried several more times with the same result, according to the report.
When he called the general dispatch number for Salt Lake City police, dispatchers told him the caller ID showed he was in Seattle. http://www.firehouse.com/news/top-headlines/utah-911-calls-sent-wash-dispatcher
Well, reach and out touch someone, a thousand miles away. It doesn't sound like there were any major problems but still, Salt Lake City and Seattle are pretty much the opposite cities. Too bad the calls didn't to Las Vegas, now that would be irony. Sin City helping out the squeakiest clean city in the United States. That would have been ironic.
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