HANOVER, PA ‒ Phones in Pennsylvania rang out with the eerie noise of an emergency alert on Friday afternoon, July 11, as the state warned of an intermittent 911 outage.

As state officials spread the word about Friday’s intermittent 911 outage, many heard alerts via their phone or terrestrial broadcasting. What we heard was a two-part system — EMnet and the Emergency Alert System — activated,

The 911 outage reported across the entire state has now been restored, according to the PA Emergency Management Agency.