NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
April 23, 2008
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
(850) 651-7420
UPDATE: DISPATCH NUMBERS BACK IN
SERVICE
The
dispatch numbers for the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office (651-7400 and
689-5705) are now in service. The lines had gone down earlier Wednesday due to
an equipment failure at the provider’s central office in Crestview.
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OCSO COMMUNICATIONS
NUMBERS OUT OF SERVICE TEMPORARILY
The
Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office main dispatch numbers, 651-7400 and 689-5705,
are temporarily out of service due to a fiber optic cable being cut somewhere in
north Okaloosa County.
No calls can be accepted
until further notice. Communications staff is working to try to acquire back-up
as quickly as possible.
The County’s 9-1-1
system however is operational because those calls are being routed through
another agency.
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