911 Outage Impacting T-Mobile and AT&T Customers in Santa Barbara Area Thursday

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – T-Mobile and AT&T customers in the local area may have trouble reaching emergency dispatchers Thursday.

If you can not reach help by dialing 911 due to the outage, you are asked to call the 24/7 Dispatch Center at 805-882-8900 shared the Santa Barbara Police Department.

Those experiences emergencies countywide, you can call 805-692-5748 shared the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office.

According to Santa Barbara Police, texting 911 still works and can still be used in the event of an emergency.

Members of the community are asked not to test the outage as emergency responders are reaching out to each missed call to verify emergencies, wasting crucial response times noted the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office.

This is an ongoing outage and more information, including when services are fully restored, will be added to this article when it is confirmed.