Police Chief Joe Leonardi said dispatchers first reported a problem the morning of May 2, after discovering that emergency calls from Verizon customers had been rolling over to a 10-digit Police Department line.
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But later that day, city officials say the 911 system failed completely, leaving them to question how many callers couldn't get through.
And it's not like it would do you any good in a self defense situation even if you could get through...
(Give the above link a while to load--it's our first Citizens of America radio spot, obtained from the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. I need to figure out a way to get them stored on this site--that doesn't appear to be a Blogger feature.)