(KLZA)-- 9 1 1 service was restored in southeast Nebraska counties Sunday according to Windstream.

An outage Saturday was blamed on a fire at a data center in Lincoln, wich required use of battery backups. Telephone lines at 9 1 1 centers across southeast Nebrask were down due to the outage.

In all 18 counties were impacted by the outage, including Richardson, Pawnee, Johnson and Gage counties according to the new release.