Phone outages disrupt phone services, Hood River County 9-1-1

Your phones may not be working – county phones are not. All County of Hood River phone services are affected – landlines and office lines are not operable. Email is active and most cell service remains operable.

The outage appears to be a result of Century Link equipment failure; Century Link is working diligently to reinstate these services. They will be working the rest of the day and night to reinstate services as quickly as they can.

How to access emergency services:

If the line is busy, please call again.

Key contact info:

Hood River 911 emergency calls (805) 399-2711

Non-emergency Hood River Sheriff’s reports www.Hoodriversheriff.com - Click on FILE A REPORT, Click on REPORT A CONCERN

Wasco County 911 emergency calls 9-1-1 or 541-993-8911

11:30 a.m: GorgeNet is also experiencing phone service disruptions due to the Centurylink outage. From GorgeNet:

Since about 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning, Centurylink has been experiencing an outage in the Gorge that is affecting their Network as well as the service provided by several carriers including Gorge Networks. This is known to be affecting voice and data services on multiple carriers in the Gorge.

This outage is currently impacting Gorge Networks customers as follows:

GorgeNet customers can call other Gorgenet customers and can call out of area numbers as well. Centurylink voice customers cannot be reached via Gorgenet, nor most any carrier.

Most Gorgenet internet connections are up other than Goldendale DSL.

We have no ETA from CenturyLink for Service restoration at this point.

9:10 Monday UPDATE: City police's non-emergency phone line is also offline.

If you have an emergency please call 805-399-2711 to reach the 9-1-1 center, if busy hang-up and call back. Fire stations are still manned, but have no phone service.

A Centurylink outage has knocked out some phone lines throughout Hood River County, including the Hood River County 9-1-1 emergency dispatch center. Some phone connections have also been lost in The Dalles.

Hood River's 9-1-1 connection went offline Sunday morning. The county's dispatch center at 601 State Street again lost service on Sunday, and the phone connection was still down as of Monday morning. CenturyLink has been working with the Hood River County Sheriff's Office to resolve the issue, according to Facebook posts.

The city police's non-emergency line is also down. HRCSO encourages driving to your local fire department if you need assistance. http://www.hoodriversheriff.com/news/breaking-news

Here is a list of county fire department locations:

Hood River Fire Department -- 1785 Meyer Pkwy, Hood River, OR 97031

West Side Fire Department -- 1185 Tucker Rd, Hood River, OR 97031

Wy'East Fire Department -- 3431 Odell Hwy, Hood River, OR 97031

Parkdale Fire Department -- 4895 Baseline Dr, Mt Hood, OR 97041

Cascade Locks Fire Department -- 25 Wa Na Pa St, Cascade Locks, OR 97014

The Hood River News office has also experienced phone outages this morning. The News will post an update when phones come back into service.