[196186] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: California wildfires - communications status
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Tue Oct 10 21:02:58 2017
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:25:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Expanding the area, Humboldt and Mendocino County sheriffs are reporting
damage to a fiber-optic line has cut-off communications for parts of those
counties. They are using amateur ham radio operators at hospitals and
sheriff station for communications.
AT&T and Verizon have confirmed telecommunications problems in California.
But didn't provide any details about the problems.