FAIRFIELD COUNTY, S.C. — UPDATE: All emergency lines are now working, officials say.
An emergency phone system outage in Fairfield County has led to a search for answers and an important message to residents regarding who they should call while 911 is unavailable.
A deputy county administrator for Fairfield County said in a statement on Friday that the 911 phone network was down as of about 1 p.m. No cause for the outage has been released as the county's Emergency Management Department attempts to figure out exactly what happened.
In the meantime, anyone needing to reach emergency responders is urged to call one of four numbers currently available.
These include:
