Quite a few Hudson Valley police and hearth departments are sending out alerts that their cellphone strains are down.
Municipalities in in Dutchess, Ulster and Orange counties, like Poughkeepsie and Newburgh, are expertise issues with the Verizon landline telephones.
Poughkeepsie police posted on their Fb web page the outage is affecting all nonemergency, seven digit telephones for each the police and hearth departments. They are saying for any nonemergencies it’s possible you’ll use their on-line reporting system or go on to the police division.
In Newburgh, police are asking individuals to name 911 or state police at 845-457-1388 till additional discover.