Massachusetts suffers outage of its 911 services [Video]

BOSTON — The 911 system across Massachusetts went down Tuesday afternoon, making it impossible for anyone to reach emergency services.

It was unclear how many communities were affected, said Elaine Driscoll, director of communications and policy at the state’s Executive Office of Public Safety and Security.

CT Emergency Management said the outage did not impact Connecticut.  “To clarify for those that received the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA): Connecticut is NOT experiencing a 911 outage.”

Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox advised the public to contact local police departments if they need help.

“In addition, if you’re having any issues that are medical related, or EMS or fire-related, you can go and pull your local call box, that’s the red light boxes that fire departments have on local street corners, to also get medical attention that way,” he said.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said residents shouldn’t worry about calling the correct number or facility for their emergency, but to …