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Outages and disruptions on emergency 911 call lines were reported across multiple states on Wednesday.
The outages began late on Wednesday evening across all of South Dakota and in parts of Nebraska, Nevada and Texas.
The South Dakota Department of Public Safety, Las Vegas Police, Nebraska’s Douglas County and the city of Del Rio in Texas all reported issues for those attempting to contact police, fire and ambulance services.
Officials said that services have now been restored in some of these areas, but no cause of the outages has yet been identified.
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