North Carolina

May 17, 2020

North Carolina County 9-1-1 will flag COVID addresses

Public health officials in Hertford County, North Carolina, have agreed to provide the county 9-1-1 administrator with the addresses of people confirmed to have COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. The data will be removed after 15 days or once Albemarle Regional Health Services (ARHS) notifies the county that the patient has recovered. “This […]

October 20, 2019

North Carolina Counties Experience 911 Outage

Friday morning, shortly after 5 a.m. 911 service had been restored to all counties in Western North Carolina who were reporting outages with their 911 systems. An alert issued shortly after 2 am by Cherokee County Emergency Management reported a 911 outage in several mountain towns Friday morning saying: Similar Story: Verizon 911 outage restored […]