Stray balloon cause of brief downtown power outage affecting 7.5K
Updated December 13, 2024 - 8:56 pm
An outage that affected more than 7,500 NV Energy customers near downtown Las Vegas has been resolved.
An outage affecting 5,461 customers was reported at 4:42 p.m. and another affecting 2,061 customers was reported at 5:44 p.m.
They were centered near South Maryland Parkway and East Charleston Boulevard, according to the NV Energy outage website.
A balloon that came in contact with a transmission line was the cause of the outage, said an NV Energy spokeswoman.
Power was restored shortly before 7 p.m.
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