Accident knocks out power, phone, e-mail to Wilmington operations center

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — Power, phone and e-mail access is out at the City of Wilmington’s operations center on River Road.

A city spokeswoman said this afternoon a crane accidentally knocked over a utility line on River Road, severing electrical and fiber optic lines to the operations center. The utilities are not expected to be restored until Monday.

City offices that are affected by the outage include trash, stormwater, traffic, fleet and streets. The city is trying to get some level of service restored as soon as possible for customer citizen calls.