Verizon Resolves 'Busco Outage

Full telephone service is returning to Churubusco, after a malfunction in Verizon equipment isolated the 693 exchange early this morning. Starting at about five o’clock this morning, about two thousand customers were unable to place calls to locations outside the Churubusco area and that included 911 emergency calls. In addition, Churubusco customers were unable to receive calls from outside their exchange. A Verizon spokesperson says technicians had the problem resolved shortly after eight o’clock this morning. Technicians plan to run extensive tests on the equipment after midnight tonight.