Vandals cut Comcast cable lines in Kent early Thursday morning, Nov. 30 causing thousands of customers to lose internet, phone and TV service.<\/p>\n
“Our network maintenance crews are actively working to replace the damaged lines and expect to get our customers back up and running between 8 and 10 p.m. this evening,” Comcast posted on its website at about 2 p.m. Nov. 30. “We know any time without service can be frustrating and appreciate our customer’s patience during this outage.”<\/p>\n
Service was lost just before 5 a.m., according to Comcast outage maps, which listed several dots where more than 2,000 customers lost connections.<\/p>\n
“The outage was caused by vandalism which is a growing challenge for internet service providers,” according to an email to the Kent Reporter from a Comcast spokesperson.<\/p>\n
Questions to the spokesperson for a specific number of how many customers were impacted or how often this has happened recently in Kent went unanswered.<\/p>\n
The cable was damaged in the 11003 to 11201 block of SE 196th <\/a>St.<\/a>, according to a photo released by Comcast.<\/p>\n Comcast also reported it service down in the Graham area.<\/p>\n Damage to cable lines has been a problem across the nation as people try to take copper from the lines to sell as scrap metal, according to multiple media reports and the FBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Connection went down early Thursday morning, Nov. 30; service could be out until 8 to 10 p.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":66397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-66396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66396"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=66396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}