Ocala FL. (352 Today) Residents in Marion County and across Central Florida are being urged to text 911 instead of making phone calls to contact emergency services due to an ongoing 911 system malfunction.
As of 2:45 p.m., both landline and cell phone calls to 911 are experiencing intermittent outages. While some calls may still connect, others are being dropped or not going through at all.
The 911 Communications for Marion County and the Ocala 9-1-1 emergency phone systems have been repaired and have returned to normal working conditions as of 11:48 p.m. on July 8, 2025…