South Carolina Appears Hardest Hit in Thursday DIRS Report
No public safety answering points were reported down in the Hurricane Dorian-affected counties in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas, but one Florida PSAP was evacuated and its calls rerouted to a backup PSAPs, said the FCC Thursday morning disaster information…
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reporting system report. Wednesday, two Florida PSAPs were having calls rerouted. The report shows 1.1 percent of cellsites down, compared with 0.1 percent Wednesday. South Carolina has the largest down, with 4.7 percent. The other affected areas each show less than one percent of cell sites down. One TV and an FM station in South Carolina and an FM in Georgia are listed as out of service, compared with none Wednesday. The report showed 22,753 cable and wireline subscribers without service in Florida, an improvement from 35,430 Wednesday. Wednesday’s report didn’t include cable and wireline outages in other states, but Thursday’s showed Georgia with 11,805 subscribers without service, 2,894 in North Carolina and 53,266 in South Carolina. Late Thursday, the FCC deactivated DIRS for Florida.