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Metallic balloons cause power outage in Santa Cruz

File photo of metallic balloons — Pacific Gas and Electric

By Avery Johnson

Published April 21, 2021 2:32 PM

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KION) An outage Wednesday morning left nearly 6,000 PG&E customers without power, and the utility has released the cause.

A spokesperson for PG&E said it was informed of an outage caused by metallic balloons coming into contact with power lines near 3rd Street and Kaye at around 12:10 p.m. About 5,950 customers were without power as a result.

Power was restored shortly after 1 p.m., according to PG&E. but the utility is warning the public to keep metallic balloons down with a weight and deflate them before discarding them.

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Avery Johnson

Avery Johnson is the Digital Content Director at KION News Channel 5/46.

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