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MESA, Ariz. — Emergency calls to Mesa’s police and fire dispatch center from land-line phones are now going through.
That wasn’t the case for more than five hours Wednesday night when CenturyLink, the local phone-service provider, experienced a system failure for all lines that fed into Mesa’s emergency dispatch center. Emergency calls made from cellphones were unaffected.
The phone lines went down between 6:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesday, said Alex Juarez, a CenturyLink representative. The 911 and non-emergency lines were restored around 12:40 a.m Thursday morning but roughly 700 other linesin central Mesa were still down at that time, Mesa police Detective Steve Berry said.
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