Metro Vancouver emergency dispatch services down; computer outage
Global News
Emergency dispatch services in the Lower Mainland are down, Saturday morning.
Emergency services are being affected Saturday morning in the Lower Mainland.
Metro Vancouver’s emergency service dispatch service, which is operated by E-Comm, is currently experiencing issues.
An E-Comm spokesperson told Global News an “unplanned outage” began around 6 a.m., and calls are going through but wait times are being affected.
No official word on the cause of the outage but it is suspected to be a server malfunction.
E-Comm said services are slowly coming online, but at this point no timeline for a full recovery.
Radio systems are being used in the meantime.
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