BLACKOUT IN VAN NUYS BRINGS DWP CREWS IN.Byline: Orith Goldberg Staff WriterVAN NUYS - City crews worked all day Friday to restore power to a Van Nuys neighborhood where a falling tree knocked down power lines and disrupted service to 7,000 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 customers Thursday night, officials said. The outage out·age n. 1. A quantity or portion of something lacking after delivery or storage. 2. A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electric power. in the 14200 block of Chandler Boulevard affected 40 other utility lines that serve areas of North Hollywood, Studio City and Sherman Oaks. Work crews had restored power to most residents by midmorning mid·morn·ing n. The middle of the morning. and were expected to complete the job by 6 p.m. Friday, said Darlene Battle, a spokeswoman for the Department of Water and Power. The tree crashed down on power lines about 9 p.m. Thursday, triggering a transformer transformer, electrical device used to transfer an alternating current or voltage from one electric circuit to another by means of electromagnetic induction. explosion. ``It was like fireworks fireworks: see pyrotechnics. fireworks Explosives or combustibles used for display. Of ancient Chinese origin, fireworks evidently developed out of military rockets and explosive missiles and accompanied the spread of military explosives westward to all over the place. The lights tried to come back several times and it was like things were blowing up outside,'' said Heinz Lietz, the owner of Lietz Consulting Engineers in Van Nuys. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: A DWP worker looks over the damage caused by a stone pine that fell at Chandler Boulevard and Tyrone Avenue in Van Nuys, knocking out power to several neighborhoods. David Sprague/Staff Photographer |
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