More than a third of the 32,000 evacuation calls for a wildfire that destroyed about 350 homes around Colorado Springs last month never got delivered.
According to records obtained by KMGH-TV (http://bit.ly/NgfyJT ), nearly 10,000 attempts to reach residents were abandoned after the calls were not completed and more than 11,000 calls were not answered.
The company blames heavy call volume for the aborted attempts to reach residents, but the phone company insists the phones were working.
Two people died in the Waldo Canyon fire, which burned about 28 square miles after it started June 23.
No phone warning for thousands of wildfire victims
POSTED: 07:30 AM MDT Jul 10, 2012
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