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Sunnyside IT manager: fiber fire in Wapato caused four‑day outage; city to pursue backups
Summary
An April outage that cut city internet and email was traced to a fiber cut caused by a fire in Wapato. IT and city staff outlined steps to reduce future risk, including secondary internet service and cloud migration of email.
City IT and public‑works staff told the Sunnyside City Council that the city’s multi‑day internet and email outage was caused by a fiber cut tied to a fire in Wapato that disabled county‑provided circuits.
“There was a fire out in Wapato that cut a fiber that belongs to Yakima County,” said Japhet Silva, the city’s IT manager. He explained that the county’s line provides the city’s…
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