Southern California Edison officials don’t want to pop your balloon. Actually, they want you to do it. With hundreds more electrical outages attributed to metallic balloons short-circuiting power ...

LOS ANGELES-- With Valentine's Day this Saturday, Southland utility companies issued their annual warning for people to avoid letting metallic balloons touch power lines. The heart-shaped foil blimps ...

(KTLA) — Metallic balloons, like the foil or mylar heart-shaped balloons often given to loved ones on Valentine’s Day, will soon be harder to find in the state of California. By 2028, the state will ...

Juliet is your community news reporter covering the South Coast of Santa Barbara County. Before you buy a metallic balloon, you may want to consider what happens to it after the celebration. "800,000 ...

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After days of warm and calm conditions, a major change in the weather pattern is expected on Valentine's Day, Monday (Feb. 14) into Tuesday. Gale-force northwesterly winds are forecasted and could ...

Bojan Plavsic has removed kites, animals and even a drone from overhead power lines. But the Southern California Edison troubleman says nothing comes close to the metallic balloons he removes from ...

The lettered metallic balloons were stacked perhaps 10-ft tall, the troubleman removing them from power lines was 5 ft 8. And the continuing problem? Well, it's much bigger than either of them.

As bad as this metallic-balloon-caused explosion looks in the above video clip, it could have been much worse. People and workers could have been too close and seriously injured. In fact, a utility ...