{"id":20653,"date":"2025-10-25T23:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T23:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/20653\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T23:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T23:22:10","slug":"jacksonville-and-bibb-county-face-phone-line-disruptions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/20653\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville and Bibb County face phone line disruptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phone lines to the Public Safety Complex in Jacksonville, including police and fire stations, are down after a transformer explosion on George Douthit Drive SW. The Jacksonville Police Department reported while their backup system allows them to receive calls, the call management system is currently down. &#8220;You may receive a busy signal if the line is engaged when you call,&#8221; they said. However, emergency assistance can still be accessed by dialing 911, as police and fire aid can be routed.<\/p>\n<p>The department said they are in the early stages of repair and do not yet have an estimate for when the lines will be restored. They emphasized, &#8220;If you need help, dial 911.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Heading west, Bibb County&#8217;s non-emergency phone lines are also down. The Bibb County E-911 center assured residents that they are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. &#8220;We apologize for the inconvenience,&#8221; they said. For non-emergency calls, residents are advised to dial 205-579-1443, which will connect directly to the center. The 911 emergency lines remain operational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phone lines to the Public Safety Complex in Jacksonville, including police and fire stations, are down after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16535,16534,7653,116,118,117,16533,16536,277,16532],"class_list":["post-20653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-911-calls","tag-bibb-county","tag-emergency-services","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-phone-disruption","tag-phone-repair","tag-public-safety","tag-transformer-explosion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}