24/7 Emergency Electrician Shreveport, LA

Call right away if you see any of this

Shut off the main breaker and call 318-688-2788 if you smell burning insulation or hot plastic, see smoke or brown scorch marks around an outlet, switch, or panel cover, hear sizzling or crackling inside a wall, feel a warm or discolored breaker, or have a breaker that trips again the instant you reset it. Repeatedly resetting a tripping breaker is the single most common way a small fault turns into a house fire — the breaker is doing its job, and something behind it needs to be found.

Half your house lost power — that's an emergency

When roughly half your outlets go dead and the other half start browning out or burning bulbs, you almost certainly have a lost neutral at the service. Voltage that should be a balanced 120/120 swings to something like 80/160, and anything plugged in on the high leg — refrigerator, HVAC boards, TVs, computers — can be destroyed in minutes. Turn off the main and call us; we can usually isolate whether the failure is in your panel, your meter base, or SWEPCO's service drop within the first half hour on-site.

Storm season in Northwest Louisiana

Between spring line storms, summer lightning, and the tail end of hurricane season, Shreveport gets a steady supply of downed limbs on service drops, water-intruded meter bases, and surge-fried panels. We handle the customer-side work — mast and weatherhead repairs, meter base replacement, panel and breaker replacement, grounding repairs — and coordinate the reconnect with SWEPCO so power comes back on as soon as their crew clears the pole. If the damage is claimable, we document it in writing with photos before we start.

What it costs after hours

Nothing extra. Ed's Electric charges the same diagnostic and labor rate at 2 a.m. on a holiday as at 10 a.m. on a Tuesday — no overtime multiplier, no emergency dispatch fee, no weekend surcharge. That matters because the most expensive emergency calls in Shreveport are the ones people put off: a tripping breaker that gets reset four more times, a warm outlet left in service overnight, a lost neutral that runs long enough to take out a refrigerator, an HVAC board, and a television.

What happens when you call

A real person answers, not a service that pages someone later. We walk you through making the house safe on the phone — which breaker to kill, whether to leave the property — and give you an honest arrival window. On-site we diagnose before we quote, show you what failed, and make the circuit safe the same visit. If a part has to come from a supply house in the morning, we secure the circuit and come back without charging a second trip.

Main breaker tripping on a hot afternoon

In July and August, a main breaker that trips when the AC starts is one of our most common Shreveport emergency calls. Sometimes the breaker itself is worn out. More often a loose or corroded lug is heating up, or the house has simply outgrown a 100-amp service. Don't keep resetting it. Leave the main off, and we will find the hot connection, replace what failed, and tell you honestly whether a panel upgrade is needed.

Where we respond in Shreveport

All of Shreveport, day or night: Highland, Broadmoor, South Highlands, Southern Hills, Southern Loop, Ellerbe Woods, Springlake, University Terrace, Hyde Park, Brookwood, Stoner Hill, Caddo Heights, Anderson Island, Shreve Isle, Cross Lake, and downtown — plus Bossier City, Haughton, Benton, Keithville, and Greenwood.

Forty-plus years in this market means we have already seen how the housing stock fails here: 1950s Broadmoor panels with no ground, 1970s aluminum branch wiring in Southern Hills, corroded meter bases on the lake side of town, and the surge damage that follows every serious lightning night. Licensed, bonded, and insured, and the same crew answers whether it is a single dead circuit or a burned service.