Woodland Area Telephone Outage

WOODLAND (WA.) AREA TELEPHONE SERVICE OUTAGE..EMERGENCY CONTACT INFORMATION

Posted: August 24th, 2009 3:34 PM
August 24, 2009 @ 3:30 p.m.

911 calls in the Woodland area are now being routed to the Woodland Fire Department. A Cowlitz County 911 emergency dispatcher is on duty at the fire department to handle emergency fire, police, and medical calls.

If you are in the Woodland, Wa., area and need emergency assistance, Dial 911. However, if you receive a constant busy signal or no answer to your call, the alternate emergency number is 360-225-7076.

If neither of these options works for you, go to your nearest police or fire station to seek help.
The Woodland area is experiencing a mass telephone outage event today. While sometimes sporadic and intermittent, it appears that calls cannot be made from Woodland prefix phones to locations outside of Woodland. In some cases, some Woodland phones cannot call out at all. This outage also appears to be affecting some cellular phone service as well as some internet service.
Time estimates to repair the problem have been reported as anywhere between a few hours to sometime tomorrow. We are attempting to narrow down a projected repair timeline…however this outage is affecting several different telephone companies and cellular carriers.

All fire stations in the City of Woodland and Cowlitz County Fire District 1 are being manned by volunteers in the event of walk-in traffic seeking help.