An equipment failure in a Verizon central office in Long Beach, C...
An equipment failure in a Verizon central office in Long Beach, Cal., knocked out toll service and impaired landline 911 service for thousands of customers in parts of Long Beach and 9 adjacent communities in southeastern Los Angeles County…
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and northern Orange County from about 3 a.m. through the Tues. morning rush hour. More than 10,000 customers were affected. Local calls were possible but not toll or long distance, and 911 calls normally routed over toll trunks couldn’t go through. The failure didn’t affect 911 access on cellphones, and most local non-emergency numbers of public safety agencies continued to work. The affected communities activated their emergency backup communications and increased patrols, and publicized their local numbers through the media.