Many households across Los Angeles were left without internet on Father's Day, after some would-be thieves attempted to strip copper from fiber optic cables. Internet provider Spectrum told The LA Times that cut lines in Van Nuys affected swaths of homes in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, with the total number of affected residents unknown.
Internet customers, primarily concentrated northwest of Los Angeles proper near Burbank, were left waiting for service to return from midnight on Sunday morning until well into Monday morning, when repairs were completed. Spectrum reports that work crews needed to make thousands of splices to the fiber connections to restore service, a time-intensive process. Fusion splicing entire sheaths of fiber wire, done wire-by-wire, required calling out extra crews to the vandalism location.
