Faulty Sensor Blamed for California Blackouts; 500,000 Customers Lost Electricity During Heat Wave
The Columbian › August 28, 2005
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LOS ANGELES - A major transmission line feeding electricity to millions of Southern California customers shut itself off because of a faulty sensor, triggering scattered blackouts in the middle of a heat wave, officials said Friday.
The Thursday afternoon outages, lasting about 30 minutes, affected about 500,000 Southern California Edison customers in several communities east and south of Los Angeles.See the full content of this document
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Faulty Sensor Blamed for California Blackouts; 500,000 Customers Lost Electricity During Heat Wave
"There was an oil flow alarm that went off," said Carol Tucker, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles D...
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