- Dates
- 2016-06-20 – 2016-06-21
- Kind
- Outage
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Carried out by
- Beaver Island Rural Health Center
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- emergency-servicespublic-safetytelecommunications
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
On June 20, 2016, the Beaver Island Rural Health Center announced that the island’s 911 number was temporarily unavailable. It directed people with medical, fire, or law-enforcement emergencies to call the Center’s alternate number so the message could be relayed by radio. The thread later reported restoration, followed by another outage on June 24.
Evidence limits
This record preserves the first-party emergency notice and its stated backup procedure. It does not establish the precise outage cause, duration, or number of calls handled through the workaround.
Sources
- A participant involved in emergency services reported that 911 had been restored shortly after 5 p.m. and that AT&T and long-distance service should also be working. This is a contemporaneous operational report, not carrier telemetry or a formal restoration log.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 10 · t010354
- The Rural Health Center reported that 911 was not working and might not be restored until approximately 3 a.m.; it supplied 231-448-2398 as a temporary number to relay medical, fire, or law-enforcement emergencies by radio. A later post reported restoration the next morning, followed by another long-distance/911 interruption on June 24 with alternate emergency numbers. These are first-party contemporaneous notices; the archive does not contain a carrier outage log.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 10 · t010327
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Rural Health Center announces temporary 911 outage, June 2016”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-911-outage-june-2016/, accessed [date], citing Joe Moore, “Back Working,” Beaver Island Forum, June 24, 2016. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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