Winds Cause Scattered Power Outages
Powerful Santa Ana winds Sunday knocked down small trees, tore off branches, activated burglar alarms and caused brief electrical outages for about 4,000 residences in Chatsworth, Canoga Park and Granada Hills.
The northeasterly winds gusted to nearly 40 m.p.h. across the northern San Fernando Valley, causing the National Weather Service to issue a high-wind advisory.
Dorothy Jensen, a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power spokeswoman, said scattered power outages were reported beginning about 4 a.m. and a varying number of customers were without power until shortly after 10 a.m.
She said the outages are caused by the winds blowing wires together, making them short-circuit. Branches blown from trees also knocked wires down, she said.
Glendale police said the wind was activating burglar alarms, causing an unusually high number of false alarms to be reported.
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