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A Newhall power outage left over 3,700 customers with Southern California Edison without power Tuesday morning.
UPDATE (11:15 a.m.): The Newhall power outage was caused by a mylar balloon, according to Taelor Bakewell, spokesperson for Southern California Edison.
Power was restored for the majority of customers as of 11:15 a.m. Tuesday.
Original Post: Just before 10:40 a.m. Tuesday, residents in Newhall began to report losing power in the area near Newhall Avenue and Race Street.
Shortly afterward, officials with Southern California Edison (SCE) confirmed the Newhall power outage on their Outage Center site.
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SCE officials also confirmed that 3,715 of their customers had lost power in Newhall.
While no cause for the outage had been determined as of 10:50 a.m., officials estimated that power would be restored for most customers by 11:39 a.m.
Ed. Note: This is a breaking news story, more information will be posted as it is made available.
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This is the second power outage in Newhall this month. SCE needs to upgrade their grid because this is getting really annoying.
This one was caused by a balloon and not by equipment failure.
We get taken out by a balloon wait till 2035 when we also have to depend on the system for charging our electric vehicles.
Because the electrical generation, storage and distribution infrastructure will remain in its present state until then?
Mylar balloons come from downhill.
Including the Thousands of new houses being built allllll around SCV, and don’t forget the horrible drought & insufficient roads/Fwys.!!
Electric companies are always blaming mylar balloons but it’s a lie. It deflects the responsibility away from themselves.
Those damn Mylar balloons are the culprit! Thought they were gonna ban those years ago, but they never did! Should do so now!