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For some reason that no one has been able to figure out yet, on Thursday night, all 911 calls that AT&T Wireless customers in the Salt Lake City, Utah made area ended up routed to dispatchers in Seattle<\/a>. <\/p>\n Police were made aware of the problem around 7 p.m. and asked Seattle dispatchers to transfer all calls back to Salt Lake City. But Salt Lake police detective Dennis McGowan said the issue “did not impact us at all.”<\/p>\n “We didn’t have any 911 calls from the AT&T cell phones that we’re aware of,” he said. “We became aware of the problem, we called AT&T and confirmed that it was occurring, but it did not impact our operations whatsoever.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n We’re glad that the mixup didn’t hurt anyone or affect emergency services all that much, but it’s a frightening prospect that all emergency calls could just shift to another city and no one knows how or why.<\/p>\n