According to Rock Island, a county-wide outage due has occurred Aug. 9 due to a fiber break in Anacortes.

Wave Broadband, the owner of this fiber, has been deployed to repair the line.

At 8:30 a.m., Rock Island posted on Facebook that they were in the process of switching over to a wireless connection to the mainland, which will bring all cell and voice traffic back online within the hour.

For info, call 360-378-5884 for a recording updated every 30 minutes or as new information is available.

Also, visit www.rockisland.com

According to Rock Island’s Facebook page, “we apologize for the inconvenience and are working nonstop to get things back up and running.”