Facebook users flooded 911 operators with calls during Friday outage

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Facebook went down Friday morning for about half an hour
Panicked people called 911 to report the outage

Published: 17:53 EST, 4 August 2014 | Updated: 18:12 EST, 4 August 2014

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When Facebook goes down do not call 911.

Los Angeles residents flooded emergency operators with emergency calls after the popular social networking site went down Friday morning, and officials are not happy.

‘#Facebook is not a Law Enforcement issue, please don't call us about it being down, we don't know when FB will be back up!’ Sergeant Burton Brink of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department tweeted at 12.37 p.m.