911 Outages Hit Oakland, Riverside and Santa Barbara in California

Emergency 911 service was disrupted in at least three California areas on Thursday: Oakland, Riverside County and Santa Barbara County. Oakland's CAD system froze around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday and calls were rerouted to the Alameda County Sheriff's Office; in Santa Barbara the outage affected AT&T and T-Mobile users. The cause is unknown and no link to the PHP vulnerabilities has been confirmed.

• Oakland's CAD system froze around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday; 911 calls rerouted to the sheriff
• Santa Barbara outage affected AT&T and T-Mobile users; text-to-911 still works
• Some Riverside County cell users cannot reach 911; service is not fully down
• Cause unknown; no confirmed link to the PHP vulnerabilities