India, Sept. 26 -- The 911 emergency services were down across Mississippi and Louisiana on Thursday afternoon. Authorities in Louisiana said that the 911 phone services were back in the state. Soon after, they went up in Mississippi, too.

According to the emergency management authorities in Louisiana and Mississippi, the outage was caused by a major fiber cut in the AT&T line that services the state. Mississippi Emergency Management Agency confirmed that some of AT&T's fiber optic lines were damaged.

"We are assessing now as crews for AT&T are on the ground making repairs," a spokesperson from the EMA was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.

The officials had said that the outage was expected to be resolved within a couple of hou...