[Image removed by sender.] Breaking News Breaking News: Landlines, cell towers down after accident Breaking News: Landlines, cell towers down after accident TIPPECANOE COUNTY, Ind. (WLFI) - A construction accident caused a major communications outage in Tippecanoe County Friday. Many residents may notice their landlines and cell phones are not working. “It’s a mess,” Frontier Communications General Manager Dave Sorg said. “The lines will be out for a while.” Sorg says around 9 Friday morning, construction crews were working on the new roundabout at Yeager Road and Cumberland Avenue in West Lafayette when they accidentally pulled roughly 200 feet of fiber out of the ground. Sorg said other factors might be involved, especially copper cables. “The (landline) area impacted, generally speaking, is all north of U.S. 52 and west of State Road 43,” Sorg said. “(The outage) may even go south of 52 in West Lafayette because of this.” Sorg added that some Greater Lafayette area cell towers are down, possibly because of heavy cell-phone use during the landline outage. He said the outage may last all day, because crews have to find both ends of the fiber that was messed up, bring in a new fiber, and splice it in. Frontier crews are working as fast as possible to fix the problem. More details »<http://www.wlfi.com> [Image removed by sender.] For all the latest news and weather updates, visit us at www.wlfi.com »<http://www.wlfi.com/> Get news and weather updates delivered straight to your Inbox. Subscribe now »<http://www.wlfi.com/generic/about_us/newsletter-registration> [Image removed by sender.] WLFI-TV 2605 Yeager Road West Lafayette IN 47906 This message was sent to: mlaguire@purdue.edu<mailto:mlaguire@purdue.edu> Manage your subscription preferences here<http://sm.lintv.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTc3NjA1Jm1lc3NhZ2VpZD0zNTE2JmRhdGFiYXNlaWQ9MTQ1MSZzZXJpYWw9MTY3OTMyNzYmZW1haWxpZD1tbGFndWlyZUBwdXJkdWUuZWR1JnVzZXJpZD0xXzYwMyZ0YXJnZXRpZD0mZmw9JmV4dHJhPU11bHRpdmFyaWF0ZUlkPSYmJg==&&&9320&&&http://sm.lintv.com:8081/prefcenter/wlfi/subscribeUpdate/0f8af450-57aa-012d-d93e-4061865ac2c6>. Click here<http://sm.lintv.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTc3NjA1Jm1lc3NhZ2VpZD0zNTE2JmRhdGFiYXNlaWQ9MTQ1MSZzZXJpYWw9MTY3OTMyNzYmZW1haWxpZD1tbGFndWlyZUBwdXJkdWUuZWR1JnVzZXJpZD0xXzYwMyZ0YXJnZXRpZD0mZmw9JmV4dHJhPU11bHRpdmFyaWF0ZUlkPSYmJg==&&&9321&&&http://sm.lintv.com:8081/prefcenter/wlfi/unsubscribe/0f8af450-57aa-012d-d93e-4061865ac2c6> to opt-out of ALL future mailings.
