911 service restored in Twin Falls, surrounding counties

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — 911 phone service has been restored in Twin Falls and surrounding counties after issues affected the system Tuesday.

The Twin Falls Police Department and the Southern Idaho Regional Communications Center, or SIRCOMM, had issued public safety alerts about the outage.

The issues affected Gooding, Jerome, Lincoln and Twin Falls counties.

Residents were advised to use local nonemergency phone lines or dial 311 if they needed emergency assistance.