911 issues in Va. stretch into Monday after storm

WASHINGTON (AP) — Emergency calls were being answered at 911 call centers in northern Virginia on Monday after being disrupted for much of the weekend as a result of Friday night’s severe thunderstorms, but one local leader was unhappy with the pace of the restoration and Verizon’s response.

The storm known as a derecho included near-hurricane-force winds and caused millions of people to lose electricity. It also knocked out power to a Verizon facility in Arlington, Va., that resulted in 911 calls not working in Arlington, Fairfax and Prince William counties and the city of Manassas — an area with a population of more than 1.7 million.