When pondering what to gift your love for Valentine's Day, FirstEnergy suggests avoiding foil balloons, blaming the helium-filled hearts for nearly 100 power outages last year.

As Valentine's Day approaches, FirstEnergy (NYSE: FE) is reminding customers to handle helium-filled foil balloons safely to keep the energy alive. The metallic coating on foil balloons conducts ...

Valentine’s Day brings flowers, candy and declarations of endless love — but it’s also when Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) tends to see an uptick in power outages caused by metallic balloons.

While there has been a decrease of outages caused by these balloons in recent years, February is usually the time of the year ...

NEWARK, N.J., May 18, 2022 /CSRwire/ – Graduations, weddings, Mother’s and Father’s Day, religious ceremonies and Independence Day – spring and summer have many special events often celebrated with ...

Utility companies have warned for years about the hazards of Mylar balloons and that message resounded Thursday across New Orleans as most of the city's nearly 370,000 residents were under a boil ...

LOS ANGELES -- Authorities say a power outage at Dodger Stadium that caused a 23-minute delay of a game between the Milwaukee Brewers and Los Angeles Dodgers was triggered by a Mylar balloon that made ...

LG&E reminded customers not to release foil balloons into the air after thousands of residents were left without power amidst below-freezing temperatures Jan. 24. According to a Jan. 25 post to X, a ...