Iowa (NorthwestIowaNow.com) — Reports of widespread 911 outage impacted several Northwest Iowa counties on Thursday, forcing dispatch centers to rely on non-emergency lines.
The outage, which began around 2 p-m Thursday, was reportedly caused by a cut fiber optic line affecting Lumen 9-1-1 services.
The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office took to Facebook to alert residents that landline 911 calls and some cell providers were experiencing a broad outage. They provided their non-emergency number as a backup…