Frontier Communications Power Outage crashes 911 system

August 5, 2020 Goshen, NY - At approximately 7:26PM on August 4, 2020, the Frontier Communications Office in Middletown went black, due to loss of commercial power and mechanical issues Frontier had with their back up power source. Repairs to the switch were also hampered by toxic fumes being emitted by overheated batteries which support the system. Compounding the above wide-spread cellular service on multiple networks went down.

The system was fully restored by 8:30am, August 5th.