Update: Verizon VoIP Phone Outage Resolved

Update: "According to the Public Safety Communications Center there have not been any issues since midnight and Verizon believes the problem has been resolved," according to a statement by Wendy Rose, spokeswoman for the sheriff's office.

 is working to fix a disruption in its Voice over Internet Protocol phone service that happened Saturday night, but 911 calls will not be affected, accorrding to the .

The sheriff's office is receiving numerous calls from people reporting their phone issues via 911 and reminds residents to only call 911 for a law, fire or medical emergency issues.

Customers who use the Internet phone service can still dial 911 as the call will be routed through a third party system to the sheriff's office 911 call center, according to the sheriff's office.

Verizon is aware of the problem is working to resolve the outage, according to the sheriff's office.