A state agency is investigating last month’s widespread 9-1-1 outage and airport disruption in Santa Barbara County caused by a construction crew inadvertently severing a Frontier Communications fiber line.
Lash Construction workers on the City of Santa Barbara’s De la Vina Street bridge project accidentally cut the line around 8 a.m. July 22, and the countywide 9-1-1 system outage lasted about 22 hours.
The Santa Barbara Airport had to stop flights because of technical issues at the Federal Aviation Administration tower. The outage also disrupted 9-1-1 phone lines and airport operations in neighboring San Luis Obispo County, more than 90 miles away from the construction site…