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Despite a regional outage of 911 telephone services Wednesday night, Yankton’s 911 dispatchers were able to immediately follow up with all callers and no one was hurt, local authorities say.
Workers installing a light pole in Missouri cut into a fiber line, knocking out 911 service for emergency agencies in Nebraska, Nevada and South Dakota, an official with the company that operates the fiber line said Thursday.