Mylar balloons tangled with a power substation Friday night, cutting power to more than 20,000 customers in Canyon Country and parts of Newhall and Saugus.
A Southern California Edison official cautioned against careless use of the metallic balloons around 9 p.m., while about 15,000 customers were still awaiting restoration of their service.
“The reason is Mylar balloons that landed in the North Oak substation that tangled up in the transformer racks,” said Ron Gales, a spokesman for Southern California Edison. “People should always tie down their Mylar balloons.”
Southern California Edison crew members were working to restore power at the station as of 9:37 p.m., and confirmed the existence of at least two sets of balloons — one that had caused the outage above the facility, and another that workers were attempting to remove that could potentially cause a second outage.
Power was expected to be restored to most customers by about 11 p.m., according to the Southern California Edison website. Gales said the website would continue to be updated regularly as service was restored.
The outage at the substation, located at 18308 Soledad Canyon Road in Canyon Country, affected customers throughout Santa Clarita, Gales said.
Power at The Signal’s offices in Centre Pointe went down shortly after 7 p.m., but the newspaper was able to continue production with support from SCVTV, which hosted the newsroom operations at its Newhall headquarters to enable the paper to make its print deadline for Saturday’s edition.
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33 Comments
Joan Evans Marlatt geeze! Thank god the sun was down or we would have been cooked!
Totally!!
if the powers that be can regulate plastic bags (by charging for them) and ban plastic straws, you would think they would ban Mylar balloons….this happens all over the country and mess up power all of the time
I seriously think they need to be seriously fined! With cameras everywhere you go. It wouldnt be that hard to find them
Besides the fact that helium is being depleted as well.
They tried. Schwarzenegger vetoed it.
Barbara I was thinking the same thing. Every time there is an outage they blame the balloons. So why haven’t they been banned?
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You asked which businesses because there is only an apartment complex behind Toppers? That would be the SCV Bailbonds, Federal Escrow, Mid-Valley Physical Therapy, Flair Beauty College along with many others. Those are businesses “behind” Toppers in Valencia. This is the area I was referencing.
Oh! OK. Not to split hairs, but just for the sake of understanding what you meant — Topper’s faces Valencia Blvd.; the only thing “behind” it (past its parking lot) is an apartment complex. The ones you mention are next to it on Valencia Blvd.
I agree! At least not fill them with helium!?
I totally agree with Barbara Hills Kehoe. Why aren’t the Mylar balloons prohibited? People do stupid things and this is one of them so they should be fined a huge fine if they are found.
Introduce me to the asshat that did that Id like to show them what I think of their patheticness……Just what we need in this fuc*in heat!!!
Carmen Artistry
Chada Moody
Kathie Kolasa Rossitto
Nichole Shelton
Ahhh
Because there haven’t been enough warnings about those balloons ??
I saw a huge group of blue and silver Mylar balloons released yesterday around noon from around the businesses behind Toppers in Valencia.
Which businesses behind Toppers? There is only an apartment complex “behind” Toppers
Fiona Raymond Ray here’s the story!! Why we had no power!
Oh no! ?Hope it wasn’t out for very long. It’s way too hot.
Pamela not as long as they thought! It was hot! Maybe an hour
Cristina Ayon good thing we didn’t lose power last night.
Damn things should be outlawed.
Sure, ban mylar balloons,plastic straws and bags.
But what about the larger and deadly threat, GUNS.
Well I got to check my earthquake supplies. Some of the flashlights need batteries and I need to replace some. I found out how to use the light on my kindle, so I just used the power outage to my advantage. So glad it happen at night, could of been at 2pm in Canyon Country when it was 108
Meg
RIGHT…. BALLOONS.. I KEEP ON SAYING ALIENS ARE TAKING OVER!
Uh oh, time to ban Mylar balloons ? lol
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Esdras Diaz
I’m with Rory! Government cover-up. This was ALIENS!