Credit: Clifford Ryan
Photo Credit: Clifford Ryan
John Harley Saiz, left, holds the burned-out metallic balloons from the Long Beach blast with members of his crew, from left to right, Ricardo Herrero, James Yolla and Brandon Copp.
Credit: John Saiz
Photo Credit: John Saiz
Lineman James Yolla and Brandon Copp work on the Long Beach power pole repair before the nearby metallic balloons made their job unsafe.
Credit: John Saiz
Photo Credit: John Saiz
This is what remains of the metallic balloons in Long Beach that left 3,056 homes and businesses without power — some for more than 10 hours.
Keeping metallic balloons tied to decorative weights like these, as required by state law, would go a long way toward reducing the record 1,094 balloon outages SCE suffered last year.
When disposing of metallic balloons, they should always be punctured to keep them from unsafely floating away.
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