Also posted: AT&T offers several phone services free to O.C. fire victims, Time Warner Cable’s will stop billing for O.C. fire victims

For all Verizon customers affected by the Orange County fires and elsewhere, the company is offering call forwarding for free. Home telephone calls can be forwarded to a cell phone, office or friend’s house.

The service is available to anyone who has evacuated or lost their homes due to the Yorba Linda, Anaheim Hills, Brea and other fires. 

Residential customers who have been affected by the fire and want to set up call forwarding can call Verizon at 1-800-483-1000. Business customers should call 1-800-483-2000.

Verizon said that crews are still assessing the extent of the damage to the company’s network in the burned areas, and construction crews will replace facilities as needed as soon as the crews are able to enter the area safely.

COMPLETE FIRE COVERAGE HERE »

• UPDATE: Live 2008 O.C. fires coverage
• TOPICS: Damage | Location/Resources | Heroes/Your Stories
• SAFETY: Traffic | Closures | Evacuations | Shelters
• MORE: Fire map | O.C. fire-related Twitter messages

More phone news:

• It’s official: BlackBerry Storm pricing, launch date
• When AT&T, Guitar Hero and O.C. mix
• AT&T’s program eases cost of calls among military families
• How any consumer can ‘test’ a cell phone
• AT&T adds McDonald’s to its Wi-Fi hotspot arsenal
• Verizon Wireless improves cell coverage in O.C.
• Sprint eases early termination fees; gets sued

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.