Officials say 911 emergency lines down across Mississippi and Louisiana

911 systems crossed Mississippi and Louisiana were down Thursday (September 25, 2025) afternoon, authorities said.

The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said AT&T was reporting harm to immoderate of its fibre optic lines and that was affecting 911 services crossed the state. Across Louisiana, 911 telephone lines are besides down. The state’s astir populous cities, including Baton Rouge and New Orleans, reported exigency strategy outages Thursday afternoon.

“We are assessing present arsenic crews for AT&T are connected the crushed making repairs,” bureau spokesperson Scott Simmons said.

Law enforcement agencies crossed some states took to societal media, urging radical to telephone section telephone numbers if they were experiencing an emergency.

Mike Steele, spokesperson for the Louisiana Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, said the bureau "is lasting by if determination are immoderate requests for and determination person been nary requests for section enactment from our parishes astatine this time.”

“Nothing I’ve seen indicates a cyberattack,” Mr. Steele said.

St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office besides reported its 911 and non-emergency lines “are down” according to an X post.

The Emergency Communications Center for New Orleans said connected its societal media leafage that the outage was owed to the cutting of a 911 “fiber line.”

Baton Rouge Mayor Sid Edwards said astir parishes successful the authorities are being affected by the outage.

St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office besides reported its 911 and non-emergency lines “are down” according to an X post.

In southwest Louisiana, the Cameron Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness urged radical utilizing “cellular devices” to interaction a section fig for emergencies owed to a “massive telephone outage.” But the bureau said that calls to 911 via a landline “will inactive spell through.”

Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office is 1 bureau wherever their 911 enactment is inactive operation. The section said successful a connection that they usage the “Next Generation 911” strategy – which is simply a “complete overhaul” of the existent system, replacing “legacy copper ligament technology.”

In the meantime, residents successful impacted areas are urged to telephone alternate exigency work numbers, posted by instrumentality enforcement connected societal media, arsenic needed.