911 down in Oakland; emergency calls routed to Alameda County

It all kind of started late yesterday evening. Yeah, it first started about 8:30, Garcia, which I first assumed was 8.30 this morning. You think, okay, lines have only been down for about an hour. How much could possibly happen in that time? That wasn't exactly the case. It was 8:30 last night that Oakland police dispatchers realized that their Internet was down, their phone calls were down, and their CAD system was down. So not only are they not able to receive 911 calls from someone saying that they have some sort of emergency and need police response, they couldn't even get any information that any sort of emergency was happening in the first place. That's what that CAD system helps them do. They realized that they couldn't figure out what that issue was. There were error messages blaring on what sounds like their computer screens. So at about 9:45 last night, they had all 911 calls transferred to the Alameda County Sheriff's Office. Now, you specifically mentioned police. That's important to note here because we're learning that the Oakland Fire Department is still able to receive all of their calls for service so they are able to work business as usual in fact to the point where Oakland police dispatchers are now headquartering themselves over at Oakland fire dispatchers and the way it's working right now Alameda County Sheriff's office they continue to receive all 9-1-1 calls meant for the Oakland police department and then they are relaying that information over to Oakland police dispatchers a process that makes the police emergency response a lot slower than you would want. They're also mentioning that they are right now only able to respond to priority one calls. It's exactly what it sounds like. Any sort of call that involves an immediate threat to life, serious public hazard, or violent crimes in progress. That is how it reads from the code of the Oakland Police Department. So if you have any sort of emergency that is directly related to some of the weather we've seen today, I know it hasn't really been all that strong of a storm but sometimes a little bit of rain could lead to a tree coming down or some flooding in your local neighborhood you can still call things like 3-1-1 and 9-1-1 for the fire department and the fire department can still respond and help you out with that we haven't seen too many car accidents this morning that involved a lot of injuries so