POWER OUTAGE HITS GLENDALE FOR SECOND DAY LACK OF AIR CONDITIONING INTENSIFIES SUMMER HEAT.Byline: Nicholas Grudin Staff Writer GLENDALE - For the second day in a row, problems at a Glendale power station Tuesday left parts of the city without electricity - and air conditioning air conditioning, mechanical process for controlling the humidity, temperature, cleanliness, and circulation of air in buildings and rooms. Indoor air is conditioned and regulated to maintain the temperature-humidity ratio that is most comfortable and healthful. - during a summer heat wave. 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. cut power to about 40 blocks of west Glendale on Tuesday morning, leaving teachers at two public schools struggling to be ready for today's start of classes. Some of the same areas were hit by a power outage Noun 1. power outage - equipment failure resulting when the supply of power fails; "the ice storm caused a power outage" power failure equipment failure, breakdown - a cessation of normal operation; "there was a power breakdown" on Monday. ``It really affected teachers at Hoover High and Franklin Elementary because they were preparing to start school and their computers went down,'' said Denise Ching For the Chinese surname Ching 程, see . For the Chinese dynasty, see . The ching (Thai: ฉิ่ง; sometimes romanized as chhing) are small bowl-shaped finger cymbals of thick and heavy bronze, with a broad rim commonly used in Cambodia and of the Glendale Unified School District The Glendale Unified School District is a school district based in Glendale, California, United States. The school district serves the city of Glendale, portions of the city of La Cañada and the unincorporated communities of Montrose and La Crescenta. . Tuesday's outage, which started about 9 a.m., lasted for more than three hours in some areas on a day when temperatures approached triple digits in Glendale. Bill Hall, the city's electrical services administrator, blamed a combination of factors for the outages. ``We've been having some problems at this particular substation,'' Hall said. ``A transformer went down Monday night, and that was compounded by the heat and use of air conditioners Tuesday.'' Hall does not expect further problems. ``The potential is there for this to happen again, but we don't think it's likely,'' he said. Other schools affected were Keppel and Jefferson elementary schools Jefferson Elementary School can refer to the following schools:
The power was out roughly from Kenneth Road in the north, to the south Glendale border and from Kenilorth Avenue in the east to Western Avenue. |
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