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DIRS Area for Ida Reduced to Include Only Louisiana

No public safety answering points are down or rerouting calls, and just 4.6% of cellsites are listed as out of service in Tuesday’s disaster information reporting system update for Tropical Storm Ida. The area covered by DIRS was reduced to…

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include only some portions of Louisiana, and no counties in Alabama or Mississippi. Some 212,079 cable and wireline subscribers remain out of service in the affected counties, along with two TV stations, eight FM stations, and one AM, the report said.