Allied Telesis 911 Services Disrupted Again!
Yokota residents beware! Allied Telesis Yokota has once again failed to provide adequate emergency power for 911 service during power outages to you. A little less than a week ago, the base lost power in most areas and all residential phone services failed to operate. This is not the first time that such an incident has occured at Yokota. Back in November 2007, power was shut down to sections of North and West housing areas which first flagged the issue to Allied Telesis management regarding the lack of adequate backup power for their equipment. Since then, as indicated by this subsequent outage, this critical aspect of security and public safety has been overlooked and the members of Yokota must once again rely on using their cell phones if them have them to be able to call 911 for an emergency. Sadly, it looks as if it is going to take a tragic circumstance to occur before this situation ever is corrected. Hopefully it does not come to this as the outcome of such a circumstance would more than likely be a lawsuit that could call into question AAFES complicity to allow such areas of public safety to be overlooked while reaping the benefits of the revenue generation.
If you picked up your phone to call 911 and there was no dial tone, how concerned would you be?
- Extremely worried (86%, 42 Votes)
- Not very worried (8%, 4 Votes)
- Somewhat worried (4%, 2 Votes)
- Don't care as I have a cell phone. (2%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 49
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