{"id":8611,"date":"2025-06-23T18:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/8611\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T18:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T18:00:15","slug":"concerns-raised-for-elderly-residents-living-in-west-acre-as-internet-outage-expected-to-last-until-the-end-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/8611\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerns raised for elderly residents living in West Acre as internet outage expected to last until the end of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An entire village being left without internet for several days has prompted a concerned resident to ask: \u201cDo we have to wait for somebody to die?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>West Acre has had a total internet outage since Thursday evening, meaning elderly residents with emergency careline machines cannot access the vital service.<\/p>\n<p>One resident told the Lynn News that an elderly neighbour had to walk up the road in the dark to seek help for her husband, who had a fall.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 750 491\" alt=\"West Acre has had a total internet outage. Picture: iStock\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"Z6MG3DJF5WGKK15I3KOZ.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.53\"\/>West Acre has had a total internet outage. Picture: iStock<\/p>\n<p>The internet outage is thought to have occurred due to a fallen oak tree.<\/p>\n<p>Sally Bridle, who lives in the village, has been told BT Openreach will not be out until the end of the week to fix the issue.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cQuite a few people in the village have emergency carelines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBT have said it is classed as an emergency, but they said that it will not be fixed by the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo we have to wait for somebody to die before someone comes out?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BT Openreach have been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An entire village being left without internet for several days has prompted a concerned resident to ask: \u201cDo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[9829,712,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-8611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-human-interest","9":"tag-internet","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114733988565581368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}