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Update: Phone and 911 services are back online in a number of Wisconsin counties after a lengthy outage, officials said Thursday afternoon. Karen Miller, spokeswoman for Frontier Communications, said around 4:15 p.m. that 911, phone and Internet service is back up and running in all of the counties affected.

Phone service repair crews could take until mid-Thursday afternoon to fix a cut fiber optic line that knocked out 911 service in four south-central Wisconsin counties and part of a fifth county.

Columbia, Adams, Juneau and Marquette counties were without 911 service, Wisconsin Emergency Management spokeswoman Lori Getter told Madison.com.

Getter added Dodge County to the list at 12:10 p.m.; parts of western Dodge County have been affected most of the morning.

WEM issued a civil alert at 11 a.m., in effect until 11 p.m., for four counties, advising residents to call the non-emergency numbers if emergency service is needed.

Madison.com learned that Jefferson County also was without 911 service as of 11:30 a.m., but service was restored by noon.

Regular phone numbers for the sheriff's departments in those counties are: