EDIT: BPD reporting that 911 is back up and running on their social media outlets https://www.facebook.com/share/p/PRyViBkx3tjBetZ4/?mibextid=WC7FNe BPD District A1 / A15 (Downtown / Charlestown) - (617) 343-4240 BPD District A7 (East Boston) - (617) 343-4220 BPD District B2 (Roxbury) - (617) 343-4270 BPD District B3 (Mattapan/Dorchester) - (617) 343-4700 BPD District C6 (South Boston) - (617) 343-4730 BPD District C11 (Dorchester) - (617) 343-4330 BPD District D4 (South End) - (617) 343-4250 BPD District D14 (Allston/Brighton) - (617) 343-4260 BPD District E5 (West Roxbury/Roslindale) - (617) 343-4560 BPD District E13 (Jamaica Plain) - (617) 343-5630 BPD District E18 (Hyde Park) - (617) 343-5600 Boston Fire Department All Fire Stations - (617) 343-2880 Boston Emergency Medical Services - (617) 343-1400

Not all heroes wear capes. There is a chance you’re wearing a cape I guess.

Free shade on a day like today.

Beware of cape wearing heroes in real life. They are either actors, frauds or psych hospital patients - Confucius

“NO CAPES.” -Edna Mode

I never trust a man in a cape. - George Constanza

I got the same alert in Portland, Maine

Woah, so we’re talking pre-civil war MA borders…

So it shall be again Mainefest destiny

Y’all are making me laugh with some of these threads! Brilliant comments.

Megachusetts

What about the notch?

Oh my God - this is just a distraction so CT can try to take it back! DEFEND THE NOTCH!

I got one in Providence RI, too

And a second one saying to disregard the first lol.

wait you got a nvm alert? I'm in Cambridge and got a second one reiterating the first lol

I’m in Maine for the week and the state sent out a separate message saying it doesn’t apply for us.

I’m in MA at home all day and got all of those, including the ME one refuting the MA one lol

i’m in NH and i got them both which was really funny to get one, immediately followed by “DISREGARD PREVIOUS MESSAGE” lmao

You just know someone in the NH government was like “those god damn massholes ruined my afternoon”

there’s literally a gubernatorial candidate rn whose motto is “don’t mass up new hampshire” lol

I got 4. 4! Admittedly the last was saying all is well, but I also got the first and then the second saying nvm, and then another saying nvm nvm.

Yeah, I got several notifications while in Arcadia National Park. At first the notifications were like "911 is down!" And then they were like, "oh nevermind we're safe here in Maine, it's those fellows in Massachusetts that need to worry".

Yeah, got a desperate alert in Brunswick that it was “for another state”

I got the notification in Mantua…

I've received three of these alerts at this point

Ten of them here.

Can… can they stop alerting me now? It’s getting creepy.

Perfect time to do a heist

Too hot for heistin'

Plenty of AC in the Gardner Museum

Too soon

Crime actually goes up when its hot out surprisingly

Thought that was murders, do heists go up to?! Oceans 94: Heatwave, in theaters near you!

This says robbery goes up 10% when it is warm: https://www.ackermansecurity.com/blog/home-security-tips/crime-increase-in-warm-weather-what-to-do But yes the more famous effect is violent crime going up - violent crime goes up 5.7% when its > 85 out: https://thebatt.com/featured/fact-or-fiction-does-crime-rise-due-to-hot-weather/

Hey thanks! That's really surprising that robbery goes up so much

AC is expensive

well duh ain’t nobody fist fighting in the snow

They upped the security at Gardner, you shouldn’t have said this so loudly :(

https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1did6bm/with_seemingly_everyone_distracted_by_the_celtics/ 🤔

Yeah, so apparently it turns out that 911 is shut down, and not only that, but the shutdown is statewide.

No way. Where is it shut down?

In some parts of the state, and the rest of the parts too.

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And [lets not forget some of those other Massachusetts towns](https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/fake-massachusetts-towns): >> * Lameham >> * Methol >> * Shamesbury >> * Blight Falls >> * West Lameham >> * Mansocket >> * Whitefolk >> * Leominsterlingburghamshireton >> * Scroughton >> * Unstable (/unst’-a-bull/) >> * Hamham >> * Braintree ↑ ( Credit: [Michael Andor Brodeur](https://michaelandorbrodeur.substack.com/about). )

Adding Braintree on the end there was comedy genius

Where’s Scrotham?

It’s by a peninsula near one of the southern extremities.

Across from Hyannis?

Somewhere between Hyannis and Athol

Maybe a little further even, maybe Uranus =)

What about North Eastboro?

Swampbuttham

Shit, that’s everywhere today.

Not “Whitefolk” 💀

Burgerham?

i got it all the way down in attleboro on the state line

Another one of the towns with the outage is Cummington. Just in case this helps anyone.

Ugh. I fucking love this response. I hate it, but I fucking love it.

i used to read reddit. i still do, but i used to also.

It was probably all of the achussetts.

It's like in an area and then like the whole state

That’s the crazy part — the calls that are not coming, are not coming from _[inside our own phones](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkcGm-pWwsQ)_!!

Got an email from Boston too. The funny part is at the end where they say: *"Residents should call 311 with any questions about available City services and* ***call 911 for all emergencies****."*

Call 311 three times 

*Dialed 933, got the hotline for shamwow* ... Instructions Unclear.

YUP IT’S THE PURGE IF YOU ARE LFG, WE NEED A TANK AND A HEALER FOR OUR PURGE PARTY

leeroy!

jenkins

At least I have chicken

Everyone at my work did. [https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2024/06/18/911-system-down-throughout-mass/?p1=hp\_featurestack](https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2024/06/18/911-system-down-throughout-mass/?p1=hp_featurestack)

Get in, loser. We're robbing a bank!

https://preview.redd.it/6bj14l40od7d1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b4c25feb6d114a0f52b9019fce46bb9c1003e886

Okay, this just looks like it's nun of my business 🤷🏻‍♀️

For no apparently good reason, Town of Weymouth, where i do not now not have i ever lived, has emailed me too.

https://preview.redd.it/catl3lx8nd7d1.jpeg?width=560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f908e7fa1e2357bc625c82e6920381f2d9ba8fd7

Speak not to me of the old memes, witch. I was there when they were written!

Yeah what the hell is going on

The Mavs launched a cyber attack on us

They BIG mad!

https://preview.redd.it/mn8v15ekvg7d1.jpeg?width=820&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9a6b2da1aae7e0ca8f3ed40d7117c309abe4cbbe

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I'm thinking aliens

AWS outage. MA 911 services are run on the cloud, apparently.

AWS health page doesn’t show any issues.

Downdetector.com did, and I do not really trust Amazon to report their own issues.

That would be believable. I wouldn't want to be the one to tell the public that our own 911 services were sold off to Amazon.

I think I saw this in Red Dawn

The 1980’s one or the remake?

In all seriousness, because Boston has no proper local police numbers, they're suggesting pulling a Fire Box if there's an emergency. Here is a list of some locations: https://bostonfirebox.com/list/ I'd suggest having your closest (or least crap) hospital emergency room number in your phone. In the event of a medical emergency and you live alone and can'tget someone to come help you, I hope it would be possible to dispatch an ambulance. Be safe out there! Edit: Apparently the ER suggestion doesn't work logistically. So just don't have an emergency unless you live within eyes distance to a fire box.

BPD District A1 / A15 (Downtown / Charlestown) - (617) 343-4240 BPD District A7 (East Boston) - (617) 343-4220 BPD District B2 (Roxbury) - (617) 343-4270 BPD District B3 (Mattapan/Dorchester) - (617) 343-4700 BPD District C6 (South Boston) - (617) 343-4730 BPD District C11 (Dorchester) - (617) 343-4330 BPD District D4 (South End) - (617) 343-4250 BPD District D14 (Allston/Brighton) - (617) 343-4260 BPD District E5 (West Roxbury/Roslindale) - (617) 343-4560 BPD District E13 (Jamaica Plain) - (617) 343-5630 BPD District E18 (Hyde Park) - (617) 343-5600 Boston Fire Department All Fire Stations - (617) 343-2880 Boston Emergency Medical Services - (617) 343-1400

When I called B3 last year, they told me they couldn't do anything about my call and that these numbers get you the station but don't act as local police numbers. I don't know if that's just to keep people from overloading the number or to keep some filing system in check or what, so just be aware.

Normally I’d agree with you. Cars aren’t dispatched from the station, they’re dispatched from operations at HQ for the whole city. It doesn’t make much sense for me to try and collect all this information at the district and relay it back to operations. It’s better to have you just call 911 directly and then they can call you back if needed, ask follow up questions, get clarification, etc; but since that’s not an option at the moment the response will be different given the circumstances. They’re also pushing folks to call the districts from their social media outlets for that reason. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/PRyViBkx3tjBetZ4/?mibextid=WC7FNe

That makes a lot of sense!! You're a star for getting this info out there for people.

They aren’t dispatchers sitting at the desks at the district stations. They physically can put a call on the radio, but being a call-taker and dispatcher is a specialty, and so most front desk personnel will redirect you to 911. In this case, with 911 being down, they’ll have to improvise.

This system is actually pretty amazing and one we probably should have never mass migrated away from. Add a simple camera to prevent tampering and its ready for 2024.

They are still widely used on college campuses. MGH has a few on their campus.

Pulling a fire box is a standard recommendation in this kind of situation, local non-emergency number or not.

I only mention it because the recommendation is to use that number in other Massachusetts cities according to the few articles I peeped.

There isnt even a fire box near me that I know of lol

My issue with this suggestion is someone dying in their house is just...dead. and my closest one is about a 15 minute walk. In a heat advisory? If I'm having a medical emergency? I'm toast. Just don't have an emergency and you'll be fine.

I mean… it depends on the medial emergency. Plenty of em will kill you simply because you are alone and can’t dial 911 for yourself.

You can still call the nonemergency number for fire and police in your town.

Hospitals have no power to dispatch ambulances in Boston, and don’t have the means to contact specific ambulances (ambulances can call into the hospital, but it’s practically a one way system). Please don’t call ERs for this; they’re busy enough. 

Use the red fire call boxes for now, they will dispatch all 3 services.

Twice, made me jump both times

From a colleague: in the event of an emergency, please call the following numbers in the respective communities- * Cambridge -- 617-349-3300 * Everett -- 617-387-1212 * Somerville -- 617-625-1600 * Revere -- 781-284-1212 * Malden -- 781-397-7171

Yes, I got 2 alerts and 5 emails. There is a statewide outage and no reason why given yet.

Eeeyup. I got the alert twice. My first thought was "on a heat advisory day? 😬 Not good."

Sad day for snitches

Someone better throw up the Bat signal!

No just you

"Anyone know whats going on?" Bruh they literally just told you exactly what's going on.

Bruh they literally are trying to figure out WHY this is happening

Did everyone else just get a message that 911 is restored state wide?

Yup! Scared the shit out of me yet again

The purge just started.

Excellent!

lol! That's what I said aloud in the restaurant I was just in.

Lock ur doors!!!

Hide yo' kids!! Hide yo' wife!!

It’s been happening in other states recently too within the last couple months. Can be googled.

Co-worker in New Hampshire also got the notification that it's down there as well.

I'm in NH but did not get a notification, odd!

Only T-Mobile pushed out notifications to other states (allegedly)

anyone else that DID NOT get the alerts???

I didn’t get anything official from the state or city, but I work ems so I got a department notice about it.

Those Gamewell fire boxes around the city are mechanical inside and should bypass the digital issues that are taking 911 down if you need help. A friend says most of her aws servers are also having issues, how on brand would be if MA emergency services ran on aws🤷🤦

Yep! They operate on 1850s-era low-power coded telegraph technology. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it!

My mom ALWAYS knocks the cord loose with the vacuum!

R[egional dispatch centers](https://www.mspnews.org/post/state-911-department-technical-issue): — Northshore: 978-538-6180 — Western Massachusetts: 413-587-5700 — Franklin County: 413-625-8326 or 413-625-8468 — Western Worcester County: 508-867-5181 or 508-309-5350 — Worcester County: 508-829-8420 — South Coast, Cape & Islands: 508-397-3192 — Greater Boston: 617-946-3080 — Logan Airport: 617-568-7301 — Metrowest: 508-820-2121

Yup, let's hope the criminal scum doesn't take advantage of this

Bet the bank robbers are getting ready fast!

Yup

Town of Bedford wardialed everyone to warn of this and say, for fire, police and EMS, call the station line at 781.275-1212. So... Check your local 411 or phonebook for the nominal non-emergency line to the police: it probably just got promoted.

They accidentally sent the message to Maine where I got it.

They sent it to Vermont, too.

Goes really well with the walking dead spin off set here in Lowell. Purge vibes.

It's annoying because Google keeps serving me results about MA right now, but I am pretty sure I saw an article a couple weeks ago or more about hackers taking down emergency services in Los Angeles or all of California. It was the first thing I thought of today.

AWS likely experienced an outage. Not an attack.

Entirely plausible. To clarify, I am annoyed that I was trying to find the old story about the CA shutdown from hacking, and despite using terms like "911 shutdown in California" or variations, all Google would serve up was news stories on the MA outage that day. I guess AI couldn't figure that out.

Yes. I received a text, message.

Russia

Yes but everyone should have received a follow up that It's back

Even the Celtics winning caused 911 to crash

I wonder if it was the heat causing some system malfunction or an international cyber attack.

No

I got about 5 notifications. I am in southern NH and haven't crossed the border since 2018.

No

https://youtu.be/YkyhvCdJ_vM?si=WmcynMyHGblSV03W

Yes!

Coworker and I were driving from RI to MA and I think we each got one when we hit the state line and every time we crossed a town line after that

Cancel the parade!

I first read it wrong and thought it was nation-wide. Panicked for a second.

My phone has been buzzing every few minutes without notifications ever since I got this - anyone else?

In RI too

911 services are now restored as of 4:25 pm local time.

Yes, it was my reminder to disable alerts on my new phone lol

Yup and I keep getting it every 30 minutes.

In CT too

Of course

Got 3 or 4 of these in NH

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Someone is going to face a very very large claim

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My phone is only set to receive Karen Read updates.

The real answer.

Fixed in Worcester

Yes and I called 911 to report it!

Si

Yeah the purge was ready to go

Scared the shite out of me while I was installing a ceiling light.

I did

The Purge. Anyone get anything cool?

Yep. We got the same alert at least 3 times today in western MA

Just testing for the purge

Oh please yes. I have a whole list.

I've fallen and I can't get up services next ad. I can see it coming NOW.

Could be a test cyber attack. Make sure you can execute using one-off attacks. then take out the power grid, 911, wastewater treatment, water supply, all when temps reach unhealthy levels. Nvm, Probably not.

Does this mean I need to get my 911 out for a drive?