Rusk County 911 Service Restored; Was Down for Several Hours
Posted/updated on: March 28, 2019 at 2:16 pm
HENDERSON — The 911 system in Rusk County and the City of Henderson was down for several hours Wednesday. According to the Facebook page for the county’s Office of Emergency Management, telephone crews had the repairs completed just before 2 p.m. and service was returning to normal. Officials say the source of the outage was damaged fiber optic lines near the U.S. 259 and FM 2276 intersection. Crews from Frontier Communications and Eastex Telephone Cooperative were called in to address the problem.
