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Break-in At GCI Facility Causes Service Issues

Dean Swope
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KYUK

On Sunday, some Bethel-area GCI customers may have experienced service issues due to a break-in at one of the company's facilities.  

“After a break-in at our Denali Tower building earlier today, and damage to some of our equipment, GCI teams have restored all of the interrupted services. No employees were hurt in this incident," a statement released by GCI on Sunday afternoon said.

GCI said that Anchorage Police apprehended the suspect, but they could not yet provide further details on the investigation.

But the Bethel Police Department says that they never received a notice of the outage from GCI on Sunday. Bethel residents were unable to call 9-1-1 from cellular devices for one hour, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Landlines, however, were still able to call both non-emergency lines and 9-1-1.

KYUK asked GCI to comment, but GCI had not been reached before this newscast update. 

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