Phone service back in Jamestown

Phone service in Jamestown was restored around 6:45 p.m. Thursday after a severed this morning knocked it out.

At 11:27 this morning, a fiber optic cable line was severed 10 miles west of Valley City.

The breakage caused all local telephone lines and 911 lines to quit working.

911 calls from cell phones were immediately rerouted to State Radio in Bismarck and land line 911 calls were answered in Jamestown by using other seven digit emergency lines that were dispersed to the public.

Stutsman County learned of the fixed fiber optic cable line at 6:44 tonight.

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