Redondo Seaside’s 911 system was kicked offline for a brief interval Sunday after a fireplace at an AT&T communications heart, in response to officers.
“Because of telecommunications outage within the South Bay, 911 traces are at the moment down,” town’s Police Division posted on Fb round 2 p.m. Sunday. By the following hour, traces had been up.
Officers mentioned a trash fireplace, which unfold to the AT&T facility in Gardena and burned for 5 hours early Sunday morning, seemed to be the supply.
The blaze unfold to a 300-by-200-square-foot communications constructing with lead-acid batteries, mentioned Los Angeles Hearth Division spokeswoman Jennifer Middleton.
Greater than 100 firefighters, together with a Hazmat crew, responded to the blaze alongside the 16200 block of South Vermont Avenue.
“They had been having some bother extinguishing it,” she mentioned.
Native residents had been requested to shelter in place.
No accidents had been reported and the trigger stays below investigation.
“It was minimal impression,” mentioned Redondo Seaside Police Lt. Justin Korte. “It didn’t seem that impacted the traditional cellphone traces. It made 911 calls intermittent.”
