{"id":151401,"date":"2018-08-16T08:54:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T13:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=151401"},"modified":"2018-08-16T08:55:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T13:55:29","slug":"human-error-caused-aug-1st-nd-mn-911-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=151401","title":{"rendered":"Human error caused Aug 1st ND MN 911 outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"story_content\" class=\"ng-binding\">ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) \u2014 Officials in Minnesota say human error was to blame for a statewide 911 outage earlier this month. Minnesota&#8217;s Emergency Communications Networks said Wednesday it has concluded its investigation into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/70d6565c6b2740e49e606bd07b1076b1\">Aug. 1 outage<\/a> . Similar disruptions were reported in North Dakota and North Carolina.According to the agency, CenturyLink, Minnesota&#8217;s 911 service provider, said human error by a third-party vendor caused the outage.CenturyLink says an employee of West Safety Services made a mistake while making a network configuration change. The error prevented 911 calls from being accepted in the three states.<\/p>\n<p>CenturyLink says nearly 700 calls to more than 50 Minnesota 911 dispatch centers failed to be routed during the hour-long outage.<\/p>\n<p>West Safety Services has agreed to stop work on its network through August while it reviews the outage.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) \u2014 Officials in Minnesota say human error was to blame for a statewide 911 outage earlier this month. Minnesota&#8217;s Emergency Communications Networks said Wednesday it has concluded its investigation into the Aug. 1 outage . Similar disruptions were reported in North Dakota and North Carolina.According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":82723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151401"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151411,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151401\/revisions\/151411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}