IA: 911 service restored for landlines in Altoona, east Des Moines [telecom]

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By William Morris

The Polk County Sheriff's Office said 911 landline service for thousands of east Polk County residents has been restored.

The phone outage, which left about 7,600 customers of Lumen Technologies, previously known as CenturyLink, without service for more than 12 hours in the area of Altoona and eastern Des Moines, was caused by a severed fiber line.