Stray balloon cause of brief downtown power outage affecting 7.5K
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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