Emergency Electrical Repair in Broken Arrow and Tulsa: Same Day During Business Hours

Emergency electrician in Tulsa, with honest hours

When an outlet is scorched, a panel is hot to the touch or the power will not come back, you need a straight answer fast. Hot Shot Electric Service Co. handles emergency electrical repair for Tulsa, Broken Arrow and the surrounding towns the same day you call during business hours, Monday through Friday from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM. You talk to someone on our team. We tell you what to do right now and move an urgent call to the front of the day.

We want to be clear about hours, because many companies advertising as an emergency electrician in Tulsa promise service around the clock. We do not run a night crew. Calls that come in after hours or on the weekend go to voicemail and are returned first thing the next business morning. If you are searching for an emergency electrician in Tulsa, OK on a weekday, call (918) 261-8024 and you will talk to a person who can help.

What counts as urgent

• A burning or hot plastic smell from an outlet, switch or the panel
• An outlet or switch plate that is warm, discolored or crackling
• Sparks when something is plugged in
• A breaker that trips again the moment it is reset
• Total or partial loss of power after a storm or PSO outage
• Storm damage to the mast, weatherhead or meter base on the outside of the house
• Lights that suddenly go much brighter or dimmer throughout the house

The last one deserves a note. Lights that surge brighter and then dim across the whole house can point to a loose or lost neutral, which can damage appliances and electronics. Unplug sensitive equipment and call right away.

What to do before we arrive

1. If something smells hot or is sparking, turn off the breaker for that area if you can do it safely, or the main breaker if you cannot tell which one.
2. Do not keep resetting a breaker that trips again immediately. It is telling you something is wrong.
3. Unplug anything on the affected circuit.
4. If the whole house is out, check PSO's outage map and your neighbors first.
5. Stay out of the panel. Opening it is our job.

We will walk you through whichever of these fits your situation when you call. If one of them settles things, we will tell you that too and book a regular visit instead.

Storm damage and PSO

Oklahoma storms pull service drops off houses, bend masts and fill meter bases with water. PSO owns the lines, the service drop and the meter. The homeowner owns the weatherhead, the mast, the meter base and everything inside. When the damage is on your side, PSO will not reconnect until a licensed electrician repairs it. We make that repair and coordinate with PSO for the disconnect and reconnection, which is often the fastest way to get power back.

After a strike or a big outage, it is worth thinking about whole-house surge protection so the next one does less damage to your HVAC controls and appliances.

This is the 2nd time we have had to have Hot Shots come out quickly because something went wrong. After repeated PSO outages in one day, part of our house wouldn't come back. They came the next day (we had ac) and took care of it quickly. Nothing but super helpful, reasonable team. After getting quotes more than double for work that didn't need to be done, it was so nice to have a company we can trust.

How pricing works on an urgent call

Urgent calls follow the same rule as every other job: you know the cost before work starts. Diagnosing an unknown problem is a diagnostic visit that includes a safety inspection of the system. Once the journeyman finds the cause, you get the repair price and decide. There is no surprise surcharge because it was urgent. Details on what it costs.

Who shows up

A licensed journeyman electrician. Urgent work is exactly where experience matters most, so it is never handed to an apprentice working alone. Our journeymen carry their Oklahoma licenses on every job, and Hot Shot Electric Service Co. works under Oklahoma electrical contractor license #26574.

Why we do not run a night crew

Hot Shot Electric Service Co. has run the same way since 1995: licensed journeymen on every job, never an apprentice sent out alone. Keeping that rule around the clock would mean either burning out the same small crew or sending less experienced people out at night. We chose to be honest about the hours instead. During the day, an urgent call gets the full team's attention, and the person who shows up is licensed for the work.

If a problem starts in the evening, the most useful thing is usually to make it safe until morning: turn off the affected breaker, unplug what you can, keep the refrigerator closed if the power is out, and leave a voicemail with what happened. We return those calls first thing, and those jobs go at the front of the day.

Getting your power back after an outage

When the whole neighborhood is dark, it is a PSO outage, and the fastest help is reporting it to PSO. When only your house is out, or only part of it, the problem may be on your side of the meter. Check the main breaker and any tripped breakers once, look outside for a damaged mast or meter base from a safe distance, and call us if PSO confirms its equipment is working. We trace it from the meter base inward.

Areas we reach the same day

We work out of Broken Arrow and reach Tulsa, Bixby, Jenks, Owasso, Glenpool, Coweta, Wagoner, Claremore, Collinsville, Catoosa, Verdigris and Muskogee. How fast we arrive depends on where you are and what the day already holds, and we will give you an honest window on the phone. If a problem is not safe to wait, we will tell you what to shut off until we get there. For problems that can wait a day, see electrical troubleshooting and repair.