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Mobile 911 Outage In Garland And Johnson County

GARLAND AND CLEBURNE (CBSDFW.COM) - Johnson County, including the City of Cleburne had an outage with 911 services that includes text to 911 on Wednesday evening

Citizens could still dial 911, but calls were received on a 10-digit telephone line that did not provide telephone number or location information.

The issue was the result is a fiber line cut in Houston.

The problem was fixed around 8:30 p.m.

The City of Garland was also having problems with its 911 system with regard to cell phone calls.

Non-emergency numbers are working in Garland.  They are 972-485-4840 and 972-272-4565.

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