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BOSTON (WHDH) – Local hospitals are having a tough time during Friday morning’s major outage.

“We are aware of this global IT disruption and have been in close contact with the vendor,” Tufts Medical Center said in a statement. “We are in the process of assessing the impact of the disruption on our clinical and surgical operations.”

Sources told 7News an email was sent to Tufts employees Friday morning alerting them to the outage, which they identified as originating from an external partner, CrowdStrike, and letting them know they did not have a timeline for resolution.

CrowdStrike, in a statement, said the issue believed to be behind the outage was not a security incident or a cyberattack.

New Hampshire’s 911 system had been out, but is now restored. During the outage, dispatchers were able to see calls – but not answer them. Calls and texts during the outage were being received on a backup system.

This is a developing story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest updates.

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