Many emergency services, such as police and fire, are returning to old-school methods amid the widespread outages.
Emergency services, including 911, are not affected but services may be slowed down more than usual, according to ABC News. In Warminster at the Bucks County 911 center, emergency calls are coming in but they are having computer issues amid the global IT outage.
That means, when you call 911, dispatchers have to manually take down the information.
The call is then radioed out. Outages, like the massive impact being seen across the globe Friday, does happen from time to time. That's why emergency services conduct drills in the event that they lose the computers.
The outage is a reminder of how dependent we all are on interconnected systems that are potentially vulnerable.