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Posted at 4:47 p.m., Monday, July 24, 2006

Phone outage hits Lahaina

Associated Press

LAHAINA — Local phone service was knocked off-line today in Lahaina, Maui County officials said, but the problem was expected to be repaired later this evening.

Hawaiian Telcom informed police that phone service was cut off at 11:30 a.m. and no one could call in or out of Lahaina, but internal callers with 661 and 667 prefixes were able to call one another.

Hawaiian TelCom crews worked on the problem, which was caused by an accidentally cut fiber optic line, officials said.

Police reported that some cellular telephone service was operating in Lahaina.