As Valentine's Day approaches, FirstEnergy (NYSE: FE) is reminding customers to handle helium-filled foil balloons safely to ...

If your Valentine’s Day celebrations include showing love with metallic balloons, PG&E reminds you to please keep them tied down to prevent the kind of sparks you don’t want on this romantic holiday.

OAKLAND — Valentine’s Day brings flowers, candy, and declarations of endless love — but it’s also when Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) tends to see an uptick in power outages caused by ...

(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 ...

Monday's metallic balloon outage affected 5,570 customers, mostly in Oakland. PG&E says these types of outages happen quite frequently: In 2024, metallic balloons hitting power lines caused 169 Bay ...

LAWRENCE TSUEI Utility reports more than 500 balloon-related outages last year affecting over 800,000 customers; statewide ...

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 ...

In 2025, there were six balloon-caused outages in Humboldt COunty that knocked out power to 3,334 customers.