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Saturday 31 January 2015

No, wait, users actually called 911 when Facebook went down?!

It was only for 52 minutes.
When Facebook and Instagram went down for about an
hour Monday night, a dispatcher in the East Bay, California,
area says she received about five 911 calls asking when the
sites would be back online, like that was an emergency worthy
of a SWAT team.
The dispatcher, who wanted to remain anonymous, said:
The authorities had to come out to say that Facebook outages
“[are] NOT an emergency,” which is something a lot of people
apparently needed to be told.
“I just want to know if you can put a note out to
Claycordians asking them to not call 911 when a
website doesn’t work? We have nothing to do with
Facebook and when Facebook isn’t working, it’s not
an emergency. Our lines our dedicated to handle life
and death calls, and even though Facebook is
important to a lot of people, it’s not a matter of life
and death when it stops working. One caller even
called back to tell me I was being rude because I told
her it wasn’t a life threatening emergency. Thank you
Claycord for all you do”.

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