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Local news provided by: Metro Networks CHESAPEAKE June 3, 2000

Cut Cables Disrupt Phones

About seventy-thousand G-T-E customers were without phone service yesterday for several hours and that included 9-1-1. According to reports, two cables were cut in Chesapeake, which caused problems in that city as well as Franklin and some parts of Virginia Beach. In Franklin, without the 9-1-1 system, police and fire and rescue personnel patrolled neighborhoods in case of an emergency. The service was back up at about 1:30.

http://home.digitalcity.com/hamptonroads/news/article.dci?provider=metronetworks&category=News&article=491634

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