On Tuesday, February 21st Plumas County anticipated the possibility of a county-wide telecommunication outage to affect both wireless and landline phones. Sheriff Greg Hagwood sent out an all-county e.mail, stating, “The county is working to repair these issues as fast as possible.”
Sierra County Sheriff Tim Standley was contacted that Plumas County power was out and its three generators were not performing properly. The Sheriff asked for additional staff and was available to take all 9-1-1 calls for Plumas County if needed, stating, “We’ll do whatever we can to help our neighboring counties.”