{"id":51846,"date":"2025-08-01T05:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/51846\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T05:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:56:10","slug":"vandalism-cuts-internet-to-thousands-of-pierce-county-homes-heres-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/51846\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandalism cuts internet to thousands of Pierce County homes. Here\u2019s what we know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Xfinity and Comcast customers in the Bonney Lake area are experiencing an internet outage today, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/washington.comcast.com\/2025\/07\/31\/vandalism-causes-comcast-service-interruption-in-bonney-lake\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawL4jw5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHvL-zi_q6oyI_hVdpDittifiSHw5eaGHygffd7j_4MEnLYAPSIdp-vNEA7pV_aem_sSptbQZdWIyOI_HThD4Oqw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:news release from Comcast;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">news release from Comcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The outage was caused by vandalism when someone cut cable lines, the news release said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Asked how many customers are affected, company spokesperson Jack Follman told The News Tribune in an email on July 31 that the only information he could share was in the news release. Follman said in an email that the outage is affecting the \u201ceast plateau from Bonney Lake to Buckley along with South Prairie, Wilkeson, and Carbonado.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xfinity.com\/support\/statusmap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The company\u2019s outage map;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The company\u2019s outage map<\/a> showed more than 2,000 customers without service as of 12:45 p.m. Thursday. The outage started about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, and restoration is expected about 11:40 p.m. Thursday, according to the map.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Crews are working to replace the damaged cords to fully restore customers\u2019 services by 10 p.m., according to the news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWhen vandals intentionally cut cables, they cause network service outages, and we need your help,\u201d the news release said. \u201cIf you see something suspicious, please report it to your local law enforcement agency.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Xfinity and Comcast customers in the Bonney Lake area are experiencing an internet outage today, according to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[39894,6969,174,27573,39893,74,39892],"class_list":{"0":"post-51846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-bonney-lake","9":"tag-comcast","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-internet-outage","12":"tag-jack-follman","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-the-news-tribune"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}