by Malcolm Butler
A stretch of East Georgia Avenue was blocked off Thursday morning following an incident that took down both fiber and power lines.
“It appears that a delivery truck leaving Southern Classic Chicken got hung up on an Optimum telecommunications line,” said City of Ruston Public Works Manager Andrew Halbrook. “It broke the pole it was attached to and that subsequently brought down that and the City of Ruston fiber as well as the power service to the central fire station.”
According to Halbrook, the internet never went down despite the lines coming down to the ground and the only power that was lost was to the Central Fire Station. By 2 p.m. all the lines were re-attached to the poles.
Earlier this week, an incident involving a bush hog cutting a fiber line laying on the ground on the southeast side of town caused an internet disruption for over 10 hours on Tuesday.
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