Service was restored shortly before 8:00pm Monday night.
Posted: Jan 11, 2021 9:34 PM
Updated: Jan 12, 2021 2:01 PM
Posted By: Nick Kruszalnicki
ROCHESTER, Minn. - 9-1-1 service is now restored after and 8-county outage that lasted hours.
According to Minnesota Emergency Communication Networks, the 9-1-1 outage affected residents in Olmsted, Dodge, Freeborn, Mower, Rice, Steele, Wabasha, and Winona counties.
In Olmsted county, a notification of the outage went out around 4 p.m. and phones didn t beep again to say it was restored until 8 p.m.
KIMT News 3 spoke with Olmsted County Sheriff Kevin Torgerson about the outage. He said operators were having trouble hearing callers on their phone lines. Dispatchers then had them call in using the 7-digit phone number instead.