It’s all fun and games until the power line blows up. Foil balloons commonly festooned at celebratory events such as birthdays and graduations inadvertently cause thousands of power outages.

Mylar balloons are the perfect graduation decoration, but the bane of existence for energy providers. Runaway balloons can damage power lines and cause power outages, especially during high-demand ...

On October 1, 2019, over 22,000 people in the city of Vista in Southern California were left without power for half an hour after a mylar balloon hit an electric circuit breaker. It’s not a ...