FORT WORTH — The City of Fort Worth is blaming Monday evening's city-wide 911 outage on a power interruption.
At 6:15 p.m., the city's 911 call center lost power.
At 6:39, they were able to start rolling 911 calls to the City of Arlington dispatch center. Arlington call-takers answered Fort Worth's calls and communicated with officers until 6:56, when service to the police side of the call center was restored.
It took more than an hour for the entire system to come back on line at 7:20 p.m.
It is unclear what led to the power interruption, but the outage is being called "extremely rare" by fire and police sources.
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