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Resident urges county help after fire severs Kinetic cables, leaving parts of Chambers County without service
Summary
Julia Leay Barber told the Chambers County Commissioner Court that a March 28 fire on Wilson and Spikes Road burned through Kinetic cables, leaving unincorporated residents without landline or internet service for days; she said she lacked service until April 6 and her 85-year-old aunt until April 10 and urged county action on reporting and assistance.
Julia Leay Barber, a lifelong resident and community advocate from the Hanumber area, told the Chambers County Commissioner Court on April 14 that a March 28 fire on Wilson and Spikes Road burned through Kinetic communications cables and left some unincorporated residents without landline or internet service for days.
"We discovered that the fire ... had burned through all of the cables of Kinetic,"…
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