A phone outage has disrupted Polk County’s 911 service, rerouting emergency calls to Bartow County’s center. No restoration timeline is available yet.
POLK COUNTY, Ga. — A north Georgia telephone outage is causing one Georgia county’s 911 system to go offline.
Polk County E-911 announced in a post on social media Sunday morning that all calls to 911 are being rerouted to Bartow County’s emergency call center due to a phone outage.
Bartow County has confirmed that their 911 system is taking Polk County calls as well:
There is no estimated restoration at
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