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Emergency Outage Cuts 911 Services in Mississippi and Louisiana
- 911 emergency phone lines were down across Mississippi and Louisiana on Thursday afternoon due to a cut 911 fiber line causing a statewide outage.
- The outages affected multiple parishes including St. Tammany, Orleans, Jefferson, and cities such as New Orleans and Baton Rouge, prompting officials to urge use of alternative emergency numbers.
- Officials and law enforcement posted local emergency phone numbers on social media and asked residents to call these for urgent assistance while non-emergency calls were discouraged until service is restored.
- AT&T crews are on site making repairs, and Mike Steele from Louisiana's Homeland Security said, "Nothing I’ve seen indicates a cyberattack" while technicians work to restore services.
- The outage disrupted both routine and emergency operations but landline 911 calls and some parish-specific lines, like Livingston's, remained operational, with updates promised via official channels as repair efforts continue.
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