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Internet service restored to Fresno County schools after construction mishap

Fresno Bee staff
The Fresno County Office of Education building at Mariposa and Van Ness in downtown Fresno. Work on reconstructing Fulton Street, about a block away, severed a fiberoptic line at the office that carries internet service for area school districts, including Fresno and Clovis.
The Fresno County Office of Education building at Mariposa and Van Ness in downtown Fresno. Work on reconstructing Fulton Street, about a block away, severed a fiberoptic line at the office that carries internet service for area school districts, including Fresno and Clovis. JOHN WALKER Fresno Bee file

Fresno County schools’ internet connection was restored Wednesday after an outage caused by construction in downtown Fresno unplugged schools across the region.

Clovis Unified, Fresno Unified and others did not have access to the web for most of Tuesday after a fiberoptics line was inadvertently cut at the Fresno County Office of Education amid Fulton Mall reconstruction.

The connection was restored around 1 a.m. Wednesday.

This story was originally published March 22, 2017 at 12:10 PM with the headline "Internet service restored to Fresno County schools after construction mishap."

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