D.C. could face 911 call outage like Northern Virginia

The nation’s capital could be hit by a 911 outage similar to the one that rocked Northern Virginia after June’s devastating derecho storm, but communications executives assured city leaders Thursday that they are fixing the problem.

“We are taking a slow and plaintive view of every aspect of what happened, looking at why it happened … to make sure that we are clear on what needs to be done,” Anthony Lewis, Verizon’s Mid-Atlantic region vice president, told the D.C. Council’s Judiciary Committee. “So what I say to you today is that we have deployed all the proper resources both [in] personnel and financial to assure you we are caring for this problem.”