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Verizon spokesman Lou Banas told LBReport.com at 3:00 p.m. August 2 that roughly 90% of affected customers may have their service restored by 8 p.m. August 2 and possibly 100% by midnight.
Verizon workers have installed a temporary hook up that routes calls through a large mobile communications van parked on Redondo Ave. They will spend several more days replacing the damaged cable, allowing the mobile communications van to leave.
The severed cable, visible in the middle of the photo to the right, is the pipe-like structure, bent upward and cut.
Verizon engineers huddled inside a large mobile communications truck, rerouting phone circuits to form temporary connections.
While fiber optic lines are being repaired, some street lanes will be closed until Monday August 6:
During the phone outage, LBPD units patrolled the area in large numbers. We spotted several units visible along Anaheim and 7th Sts.