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Mylar Balloons Plunge Canyon Country Into Darkness
| Friday, Jul 27, 2018
Crews work to restore power to approximately 20,000 residents after a foreign object caused equipment to fail at the Canyon Country substation. Cory Rubin/ The Signal

 

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

  1. Wendy Riedasch-Lock says:
    Friday, Jul 27, 2018 at

    Joan Evans Marlatt geeze! Thank god the sun was down or we would have been cooked!

    Reply
  2. Barbara Hills Kehoe says:
    Friday, Jul 27, 2018 at

    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

    Reply
  3. Jerry Ford says:
    Friday, Jul 27, 2018 at

    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!!!

    Reply
  4. Cecilia Delgado says:
    Friday, Jul 27, 2018 at

    Carmen Artistry

    Reply
  5. Savannah Lynn says:
    Friday, Jul 27, 2018 at

    Chada Moody

    Reply
  6. Gina Rodriguez Linstrom says:
    Saturday, Jul 28, 2018 at

    Kathie Kolasa Rossitto

    Reply
  7. Ruben Perez says:
    Saturday, Jul 28, 2018 at

    Nichole Shelton

    Reply
  8. Cheryl Massie Larocca says:
    Saturday, Jul 28, 2018 at

    Because there haven’t been enough warnings about those balloons ??

    Reply
  9. Brian says:
    Saturday, Jul 28, 2018 at

    I saw a huge group of blue and silver Mylar balloons released yesterday around noon from around the businesses behind Toppers in Valencia.

    Reply
  10. Connie Villasenor says:
    Saturday, Jul 28, 2018 at

    Fiona Raymond Ray here’s the story!! Why we had no power!

    Reply
  11. Alfredo Gomez says:
    Saturday, Jul 28, 2018 at

    Cristina Ayon good thing we didn’t lose power last night.

    Reply
  12. Paul Wickline says:
    Saturday, Jul 28, 2018 at

    Damn things should be outlawed.

    Reply
  13. Denny NNWofLA says:
    Saturday, Jul 28, 2018 at

    Sure, ban mylar balloons,plastic straws and bags.
    But what about the larger and deadly threat, GUNS.

    Reply
  14. Patricia Probasco says:
    Saturday, Jul 28, 2018 at

    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

    Reply
  15. Rory Csaszar says:
    Saturday, Jul 28, 2018 at

    Meg

    Reply
  16. Rory Csaszar says:
    Saturday, Jul 28, 2018 at

    RIGHT…. BALLOONS.. I KEEP ON SAYING ALIENS ARE TAKING OVER!

    Reply
  17. Theodore Miller says:
    Saturday, Jul 28, 2018 at

    Uh oh, time to ban Mylar balloons ? lol

    Reply
  18. Arlene Cas says:
    Saturday, Jul 28, 2018 at

    ?

    Reply
  19. Michelle Diaz says:
    Saturday, Jul 28, 2018 at

    Esdras Diaz

    Reply
  20. Jeanne says:
    Monday, Jul 30, 2018 at

    I’m with Rory! Government cover-up. This was ALIENS!

    Reply

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