The 911 system across Massachusetts was restored Tuesday after going down for several hours, which made it impossible for anyone to reach emergency services through the call number.
The Massachusetts State Police announced around 3:45 p.m. that the system had been restored and that people could resume calling emergency services. They didn’t provide any details behind the cause of the outage.
It was unclear how many communities were affected by outage, said Elaine Driscoll, director of communicat