Chocolates, flowers and helium-filled metallic balloons are popular Valentine’s Day gifts. Hold tight to those balloons on Feb. 14, though, as they can be a headache for energy companies. Electric ...

MISSOURI (KFVS) - Spring brings graduations and celebrations and Ameren is urging customers to be careful when using Mylar balloons. While festive, they say the balloons can cause power outages and ...

Feb. 10 (UPI) --For Valentine's Day, electric companies would love for everyone to heed a warning: Helium-filled foil balloons can cause power outages. Brightly colored helium balloons are sold as an ...

Thinking of ringing in Valentine's Day with some festive balloons? Be sure to hold on tight. FirstEnergy reported that 109 power outages in its service area were caused by foil balloons last year. "As ...

Nearly 2,200 Los Angeles Department of Water and Power customers in the Sawtelle and Westwood areas in West Los Angeles were without power Saturday due to metallic balloons that floated into power ...

The outage began at 5:20 p.m. Saturday and affected more than 5,000 customers as the temperature dipped into the mid-40s.

PG&E officials are asking this year’s graduates in the Bay Area to secure helium-filled metallic balloons with weights because the balloons can cause power outages if they hit power lines. This year, ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – It’s graduation season, which means PNM is warning graduates and their families about the potential danger of mylar balloons. Mylar balloons are coated in metal, which means they ...

FirstEnergy reported more than 100 power outages caused by metallic balloons on Valentine's Day 2024. FirstEnergy urges the public to avoid using metallic balloons near power lines and to deflate them ...