111 (DEGREE) HEAT PACKS PUNCH; RECORDS FALL; REGION BAKES IN TRIPLE DIGITS.Byline: Sherry Joe Crosby Daily News Staff Writer Record-breaking heat scorched scorch v. scorched, scorch·ing, scorch·es v.tr. 1. To burn superficially so as to discolor or damage the texture of. See Synonyms at burn1. 2. the Southland for the fourth day in a row Tuesday, boosting power use to an all-time high and sending cardiac patients to hospitals - but cooler temperatures are forecast for Thursday. Making an otherwise unbearable day worse, sporadic power outages This is a list of famous wide-scale power outages. 1965
Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. , causing traffic jams and stranding people in elevators. Scattered outages lingered through the evening in the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. , the city of San Fernando and parts of Ventura County, leaving more than a thousand people without lights and, worse - without air conditioning. All the while, the temperatures inched up. At the Los Angeles Civic Center, the mercury hit 100 degrees, melting a record of 97 set in 1994. Woodland Hills sizzled at 111 and Chatsworth hit 110, shattering the 1994 record of 109 degrees, while Burbank baked at 108, breaking the 1983 record of 101. ``These are almost inhuman working conditions,'' Lt. Chris Welker of the Burbank Police Department The Burbank Police Department is the police department serving Burbank, California. Tim Stehr became the Police Chief of the department on August 1, 2007. The previous chiefs were Thomas Hoefel, David Newsham and Glen Bell. said. ``With a bulletproof Refers to extremely stable hardware and/or software that cannot be brought down no matter what unusual conditions arise. See industrial strength. bulletproof - Used of an algorithm or implementation considered extremely robust; lossage-resistant; capable of correctly vest it's like being wrapped up in Saran Wrap Noun 1. Saran Wrap - a thin plastic film made of saran (trade name Saran Wrap) that sticks to itself; used for wrapping food cling film, clingfilm plastic wrap - wrapping consisting of a very thin transparent sheet of plastic , with no ability to breath. It's been pretty miserable.'' Sure it was hot Tuesday, but not as hot as Sept. 12, 1971, when the mercury reached 115 degrees in Burbank - the hottest ever recorded in the Valley, according to the National Weather Service. Today, temperatures are expected to reach 99 degrees at the Civic Center, before cooling off Thursday by 10 degrees to 15 degrees. ``That'll feel nice,'' said National Weather Service Meteorologist Bruce Rockwell. The hot, dry weather is the result of a high pressure system that has stalled over Southern California, blocking ocean breezes from the inland valleys. As a precaution, the National Weather Service issued an excessive heat warning Tuesday for the Valley because of the dangerous combination of heat and relative humidity relative humidity n. The ratio of the amount of water vapor in the air at a specific temperature to the maximum amount that the air could hold at that temperature, expressed as a percentage. that hit between 20 percent to 30 percent. Another excessive heat warning is expected today for the Valley. Under such conditions, temperatures feel warmer than usual, Rockwell said. For example, an air temperature of 110 degrees and relative humidity of 30 percent can feel like 120 degrees, he said. If you don't like the hot weather, however, you can always try Mars. Last week, the high temperature hit 8 degrees above zero; the low, 108 degrees below zero. Even with record power use, the heat had nothing to do with the blackouts that struck parts of the Valley, northern Los Angeles and Ventura counties as electricity use surged to record levels, utility officials said. The 1:50 p.m. power outage was caused by a small plane that clipped two high-voltage power lines before crashing a mile outside Hesperia, said Glen Becerra, region manager of Southern California Edison Southern California Edison (or SCE Corp), the largest subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE: EIX), is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California. It provides 11 million people with electricity. . The crash caused a ``major voltage disturbance'' that flickered computer screens and left 2,000 traffic signals dark or flashing red throughout Los Angeles, said Karen Shepard-Grimes, spokeswoman for the city Department of Water and Power, which covers most of the Valley. The lights aren't expected to be repaired until today, each having to be reset manually. Firefighters responded to six calls of people stranded in elevators in Studio City, Van Nuys and North Hollywood, said Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. spokesman Bob Collis. There were no injuries or health related problems in any of the elevator rescue cases, Collis said. The outage also left Burbank's emergency services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' without 911 lines, forced area restaurants to close their doors and caused automated teller machines automated teller machine (ATM), device used by bank customers to process account transactions. Typically, a user inserts into the ATM a special plastic card that is encoded with information on a magnetic strip. to malfunction and ``swallow'' bank cards until officials could open the devices. Despite the outages, both utility companies reported record power usage. DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection used 5,336 megawatts of power Tuesday, surpassing the record of 5,312 megawatts set June 27, 1990. And Southern California Edison, which serves the city of San Fernando and the Simi and Santa Clarita valleys, used 18,737 megawatts and beat the record of 18,407 megawatts set Aug. 17, 1992. One megawatt equals 1,000 kilowatts, which can serve between 500 and 1,000 customers. ``This is by far the most power we've ever generated,'' said Tom Boyd, a spokesman for Southern California Edison. ``People are buying more and more air conditioners and there are more and more buildings with air conditioners. There's just a lot more load.'' Officials from both utility companies, however, said they had enough to supply their customers without a problem. At Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center, physicians blamed the heat for seven cardiac patients they admitted into the hospital - double the number for a typical day. ``It's hotter and it's more demanding on the heart and lungs,'' said Dr. Hugh Chen, chief of emergency medicine. ``Those with emphysema emphysema (ĕmfĭsē`mə), pathological or physiological enlargement or overdistention of the air sacs of the lungs. A major cause of pulmonary insufficiency in chronic cigarette smokers, emphysema is a progressive disease that commonly and asthma will start having chest pains and breathing trouble.'' Chen recommended that people - especially the young and elderly - curtail their outdoor activities to the early morning and evening hours when temperatures are cooler, and to drink plenty of fluids and stay inside air-conditioned buildings such as shopping malls. As Valley residents suffered through the triple-digit temperatures, students at Dixie Canyon Elementary School in Sherman Oaks kept cool. Just in time for the heat wave, air conditioning was installed Tuesday in 28 of the school's 30 classrooms with money from the Proposition BB bond, said Erik Nasarenko, spokesman for the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. . In the Sunland-Tujunga area, Tuesday's weather may have actually helped to control a brush fire that broke out shortly after 9 a.m. near McGroarty Cultural Center Park, said Los Angeles Fire Department officials. The cause of the two-acre fire, which was extinguished in an hour and did not threaten any homes, is still under investigation, said Collis. There were no injuries. CAPTION(S): 3 Photos, Box Photo: (1--Color) Senior Keith Thomas heads for the shade during a water break Tuesday at football practice at El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
Phil McCarten/Daily News (2--Color) Marco Soto hoses off after working on a roof in triple-digit heat in Northridge. Michael Owen Baker/Daily News (3) A power outage disrupted traffic signals and snarled snarl 1 v. snarled, snarl·ing, snarls v.intr. 1. To growl viciously while baring the teeth. 2. To speak angrily or threateningly. v.tr. intersections around the Valley, including Sherman Way and Haskell Avenue. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News Box: (Color) Five-day outlook |
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