Several Fresno County services down after global tech outage

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - It was mayhem for radical astatine the Fresno Yosemite International Airport aft immoderate radical went to the airdrome arsenic aboriginal arsenic past nighttime trying to marque their flights -but the outage has prevented that. 

“They're telling america each flights successful and retired are grounded. So, nary one's coming in. No one's going out,” said Fresno Yosemite International Airport Traveler, Brandi Guinn.

The planetary tech outage took a toll connected airlines, unit members, and passengers trying to get to their destinations.

At first, passengers were told flights were delayed and past canceled.

“It would beryllium different hour, different hour, but we’re inactive here,” said Nancy Moore, a traveler affected by this incident.

The Clovis Police Department was besides affected by the outage.

Sgt. Phil Garcia with The Clovis Police Department says that erstwhile the outage happened connected Thursday night, officers had occupation with emails and different networks.

“Both dispatchers and officers went benignant of backmost to the origins of this occupation and broke retired a pencil and a pad and started doing everything by hand,” helium said.

According to Garcia, 911 services were inactive operable contempt the tech outage.

“There was nary interruption to immoderate benignant of the work we supply community,” helium said.

Meanwhile, the County of Fresno experienced a small spot much occupation from the outage. 

Eric Matthews, with The County of Fresno, says they took enactment astir midnight aft learning the outage stemmed from Crowdstrike

“We did mobilize astir 20 of our unit astatine nighttime to commencement going to the mission-critical locations that are 24 hours,” helium said.

He says EMS services had a beardown concern continuity plan, allowing them to run done the outage. However, it took astir 2 hours to get the systems backmost to normal.

“The archetypal happening we had to bash was bring up their existent backend systems, similar their servers and worldly similar that. And past we had to spell on-site to bring up each their workstations truthful they tin log successful to their systems.”

Kirsten Martinez, a Fresno State student, says she is successful daze aft witnessing specified a historical planetary tech meltdown.

“This truly opened my eyes to however overmuch powerfulness a institution similar this has and just, you know, to deliberation that 1 of the flip of a power and everything is down.”

Reports are calling this the largest IT outage successful history.