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CenturyLink Nationwide Phone Outage Impacts Colorado Child Abuse and Neglect HotlineDENVER, Sept. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- This afternoon Colorado Department of Human Services learned that users are unable to connect through any 800 numbers hosted by CenturyLink throughout the nation. This issue does impact the Colorado Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline (1-844-CO-4-KIDS). CenturyLink has acknowledged the problem and is working to resolve it as quickly as possible. Our number one priority is the safety of the children of Colorado. As always, anyone witnessing a child in a life-threatening situation should call 911 immediately. As CenturyLink works to correct this issue, CDHS encourages the public to call the following local county human services phone numbers to report all concerns for a child's safety and well-being. "We are aware there is a service outage impacting our customers who use our toll-free services as well as our own inbound numbers," said Mark Molzen, Issues Manager, Corporate Communications for CenturyLink. "Efforts to restore services continue. We will update customers as we progress and we apologize for the inconvenience." For the most up to date information regarding this issue visit co4kids.org.
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