The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department is in the third day of an outage of its computer-aided dispatch system in its vehicles, leaving deputies to resort to old methods as they respond to calls.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The archaic computer dispatch system for the nation’s largest sheriff’s department remained out of commission on Thursday after crashing on New Year’s Eve, forcing deputies to handle all calls by radio, authorities said.

First discovered: 12:44 p.m. Jan. 3 Initial location: Los Angeles County, Calif. A new wildfire was reported today at 12:44 p.m. in Los Angeles County. The wildfire has been burning on private land. At this time, there is no information on the containment of the fire and the cause of it remains undetermined.