Power is back on at Denver’s emergency communications center, restoring 911 and non-emergency phone lines that went down at 3:40 p.m., according to the Denver Department of Public Safety.
Calls were routed to neighboring jurisdictions during the outage, which lasted approximately 40 minutes.
City officials are looking into the cause of the outage and why a backup generator didn’t turn on during the outage, said spokesperson Kelly Jacobs.
ATTENTION: Denver 9-1-1 is experiencing a power outage at the emergency communications center.
Callers may experience delays as 9-1-1 calls are being routed to neighboring jurisdictions for the time being.
Updates will be provided on this thread.
— Denver Public Safety Department (@DenSafetyDept)
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