Blackouts in Downtown Burbank
Call it an early start for the Fourth of July holiday for you office workers -- about 450 Burbank Water and Power customers around downtown are sweating it out right now due to a power outtage. BWP Assistant General Manager Greg Simay said the outage was reported just after 10:30 a.m. and affects 370 residences and 80 commerical offices and shops.
The boundaries are roughly between 3rd Street and the 5 freeway, as far north as Olive and south as Providencia.
No word yet what caused the short to the system, but it wasn't an overload due to summer heat, Simay said, though he suspects a runaway mylar balloon to be the culprit. He hopes to have power restored by 12:30 p.m.
A spot of news for an otherwise slow day so far...