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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (KTLA) — Metallic balloons, like the foil or ...

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 ...

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 ...

A metallic balloon that wrapped around overhead power lines along Lower Main Street caused an outage for about 585 customers in the Wailuku area around 6:50 p.m. Sunday. Hawaiian Electric Co.

(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 ...