BY CRAIG SAILOR
UPDATE 5 p.m. Thursday: Service to all Tacoma customers has been restored, according to CenturyLink.
UPDATE 7 p.m. Wednesday: Service has been restored in the Crystal Mountain and Enumclaw areas, according to CenturyLink.
Original story below.
CenturyLink phone and internet service outages in North Tacoma, Crystal Mountain ski resort and Enumclaw have left residents without landlines and forced a retirement community to go on "fire watch."
About 50 customers are affected in the Tacoma outage which began Friday, CenturyLink spokeswoman Kerry Zimmer said Wednesday.