Almost every single department in the city of Wichita has been impacted by the cyberattack that happened Sunday night. “Every department within the city of Wichita is just trying its best right now to go about day to day operations,” said Wichita Mayor Lily Wu. The Wichita fire fighter’s union says the system that alerts fire fighters when there’s a call in their area is down so now the department is having to monitor their radios 24/7 to make sure they don’t miss a call. “We’re on for 24 hours so having to monitor the radios when normally you’d be sleeping is a hardship,” said the Union’s vice president Dustin Winter. He says usually firefighters can sleep throughout the night because if something happens all the lights will turn on and an alarm will sound but that’s not happening right now. The Fraternal Order of Police says the Wichita Police Department is also having to change things up a bit to work through changes the outage caused. “The Fraternal Order of Police is aware of the cybersecurity incident and have been working closely with Chief Sullivan and his command staff to ensure that our officers have the necessary resources to maintain exceptional service standards. While the incident has caused some more traditional methods to get the mission accomplished, rest assured that the dedicated men and women of the Wichita Police Department are diligently working to uphold our commitment to exceptional customer service and public safety,” said the FOP’s president in a statement to KAKE News. (…) First responders aren’t the only ones being impacted.
Source: KAKE – News
