As state officials spread the word about Friday’s intermittent 911 outage, many heard alerts via their phone or terrestrial broadcasting. What we heard was a two-part system — EMnet and the Emergency Alert System — activated,

HANOVER, PA ‒ Phones in Pennsylvania rang out with the eerie noise of an emergency alert on Friday afternoon, July 11, as the state warned of an intermittent 911 outage.

Pennsylvania is experiencing a 911 outage across the entire state, according to an alert from the state's emergency management agency.