(WPRI) — Massachusetts’ 911 service has been restored after an outage affected communities across the state Tuesday afternoon, according to a state representative.

A public safety alert was sent out around 2:30 p.m. warning people of the statewide service outage.

A representative from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security confirmed at that time that the State 911 Department was aware of the disruption and investigating the cause.

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