{"id":365365,"date":"2010-02-26T07:37:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T12:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/balloon-blamed-for-second-outage-in-two-days"},"modified":"2010-02-26T07:37:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T12:37:48","slug":"balloon-blamed-for-second-outage-in-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/365365","title":{"rendered":"Balloon Blamed For Second Outage In Two Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ELGIN\u00a0(STMW)\u00a0 &#8212; A mylar balloon that struck a power outage was blamed for the second power outage in as many days in northwest suburban Elgin.<\/p>\n<p>\nCommonwealth Edison representatives said a mylar balloon hit power lines near National Street and Wellington Avenue on Thursday, causing a second power outage in as many days on the city&#8217;s east side.<\/p>\n<p>\nPower went out at 12:13 p.m. Thursday to 684 customers in an area bordered by Bode Road, Route 20, Willard Avenue and Grove Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>\nAbout the same time Wednesday, an outage affected the same number of residences in the same area.<\/p>\n<p>\nPower was restored to all affected customers by 1:47 p.m. Thursday, according to ComEd spokeswoman Alicia Zatkowski.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe cause of Wednesday&#8217;s outage was an equipment failure and was unrelated to Thursday&#8217;s incident, Zatkowski said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article from <a  href=\"http:\/\/wbbm780.com\/content_page.php?contentType=4&amp;contentId=5652301\" title=\"Balloon Blamed For Second Outage In Two Days\" rel='nofollow'>WBBM News Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Distributed via <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\" rel='nofollow'>Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2ELLwwxXZ21-Qvjh3aA3lj3GRD4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2ELLwwxXZ21-Qvjh3aA3lj3GRD4\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2ELLwwxXZ21-Qvjh3aA3lj3GRD4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2ELLwwxXZ21-Qvjh3aA3lj3GRD4\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=jqZMZllnhWA:3Bwd6wGvTxg:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=jqZMZllnhWA:3Bwd6wGvTxg:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=jqZMZllnhWA:3Bwd6wGvTxg:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=jqZMZllnhWA:3Bwd6wGvTxg:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/jqZMZllnhWA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELGIN\u00a0(STMW)\u00a0 &#8212; A mylar balloon that struck a power outage was blamed for the second power outage in as many days in northwest suburban Elgin. Commonwealth Edison representatives said a mylar balloon hit power lines near National Street and Wellington Avenue on Thursday, causing a second power outage in as many days on the city&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}