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Like bad weather, metallic balloons are a leading cause of power outages.
Unlike bad weather, however, there’s an easy and cheap solution to the outages caused by stray balloons.
Southern California Edison (SCE) is on a record pace for balloon outages with 390 even before the traditionally worst month of June and its celebrations of Father’s Day, graduations and the ever-popular weddings. SCE urges its customers to always keep the balloons tied to a weight, as required by California law, and to never release them outdoors.
“Worse than outages, floating metallic balloons can pose a major safety threat to people when the contact is violent enough to bring down power lines,” said Don Neal, SCE director of Corporate Environmental, Health and Safety. “The best way to avoid this and property damage is by keeping them indoors or tied to a weight.”
The weights are as crucial as ever as SCE has seen all-time highs this year for balloon outages in March (89), April (86) and May (122) on its way to a 50 percent increase over this point last year. Additionally, June has long been the worst month for the outages, leading all months in four of the past five years. Last year, SCE experienced 21 percent — or 137 of 656 — of its balloons outages in June. Only May (93) was close.
SCE recommends some other tips for safely handling metallic balloons:
More on metallic balloon safety can be found at on.sce.com/staysafe. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
About Southern California Edison
An Edison International (NYSE:EIX) company, Southern California Edison is one of the nation’s largest electric utilities, serving a population of nearly 14 million via 5 million customer accounts in a 50,000-square-mile service area within Central, Coastal and Southern California.
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Southern California EdisonMedia Contact:Paul Netter, (626) 302-2255
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