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LINCOLN, Neb. — The accidental cutting of a landscape irrigation line in Lincoln’s Centennial Mall sparked a cascading series of events in September that led to a 4½-hour outage of

The accidental cutting of a landscape irrigation line eventually led to a 4½-hour outage of 911 systems in southeast Nebraska last September.

Lack of required ‘redundancy’ after two outages last week raise concerns about reliability of Nebraska emergency lines

LINCOLN, Neb. — A state agency is digging into why backup procedures failed to work after emergency 911 networks across Nebraska went down last week.