Spiritwood area left without phone services after SaskTel building fire

Aug 23, 2020 | 9:38 AM

Spiritwood RCMP released on Sunday morning there is no way to reach 911 in the Spiritwood area, after a SaskTel building in the town caught fire early in the morning. Those who need police services will need to drive to their local detachment.

As a result of the fire, all local SaskTel services including phone (including 911), internet, and cellular services have been lost.

08:19AM There is a major outage currently affecting Spiritwood and surrounding area due to a fire. We are working to fix this as quickly as possible and will update this post when more information is available. #skoutage

— SaskTel Support (@SaskTelSupport) August 23, 2020

The affected area is estimated to be (from Spiritwood) north to Chitek Lake, south to Rabbit Lake, and east to Debden. How far west the stoppages have gone has not been determined.

Although Spiritwood RCMP nor SaskTel Support had an estimate as to when services would resume, the Town of Spiritwood said on Facebook services could take anywhere from two to 10 days to restore.