911 services return to Oakland County communities

2. Landline phone services

OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. – A technical issue disrupted telephone communications Thursday creating a 911 emergency outage throughout Oakland County and has since been repaired.

Several communities in Oakland County are handled by the sheriff's office operations center. Those communities include:

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  • Auburn Hills
  • Holly
  • Lake Angelus
  • Lake Orion
  • Milford Township
  • Oxford
  • Walled Lake
  • Wixom
  • Wolverine Lake

The Oakland County Sheriff's Office said the outage was caused by a third party 911 vendor that was installing a software update on 911 system servers which caused the system to malfunction.

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