Telephone Service Outage Restored In North Douglas County, OR [telecom]

Dec 19, 2018 1 Replies

A telephone service outage impacting parts of North Douglas County has been restored.



An update from the Douglas County Sheriff's Office said customers of CenturyLink in the Yoncalla, Elkton, Scottsburg, Drain and Loon Lake areas lost their phone service around 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday. That may have prohibited them from dialing 9-1-1 to summon emergency services from a landline, though those with cellular service may have been able to get through.



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Historical perspective:

In 1955 there was a terrible hurricane, Diane. The Bell System ran an ad describing recovery efforts:

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In 1947 a central office burned up. Bell ran an ad describing recovery:

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