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In Kansas City, Missouri, workers installing a light pole for another company Wednesday cut into a Lumen Technologies fiber line, Lumen global issues director Mark Molzen said in an email to The Associated Press. Service was restored within 2 1/2 hours, he said. There were no reports of 911 outages in Kansas City.
Meanwhile, the difficulties some cellphone callers experienced making 911 calls in Del Rio, Texas, were apparently because of an outage involving a cellular carrier, not the city's 911 system, city spokesman Peter Ojeda said. Lumen is not a 911 service provider for Texas.
Federal officials were looking into the outage.
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Light pole installation in Kansas City, Missouri, hits fiber line, knocks out 911 service in several states
Workers installing a light pole in Kansas City, Missouri, cut into a fiber line, knocking out 911 service for emergency agencies in Nebraska, Nevada and South Dakota, an official said Thursday.
Light pole installation in Missouri hits fiber line, knocks out 911 service in several states
In Kansas City, Missouri, workers installing a light pole for another company Wednesday cut into a Lumen Technologies fiber line.
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