THOUSANDS LOSE POWER IN LATEST OUTAGE.Byline: Naush Boghossian Staff Writer GLENDALE - About 16,000 residents lost power early Wednesday, and GWP GWP Global Warming Potential GWP Global Water Partnership GWP Gift With Purchase GWP Guinea-Bissau Peso (currency code: now GNF) GWP German Wirehaired Pointer (dog breed) GWP Gross World Product officials were working to determine whether an equipment malfunction mal·func·tion v. 1. To fail to function. 2. To function improperly. n. 1. Failure to function. 2. Faulty or abnormal functioning. caused the fourth major power failure in the past year. Glendale Water and Power officials reassured customers that the utility system is reliable despite 11 smaller power failures last month and the hourlong hour·long or hour-long adj. Lasting an hour: an hourlong television episode. Adj. 1. 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. that started at 8:12 a.m. Wednesday. ``Outages will happen. We can't guarantee 100 percent power,'' said Ramon Abueg, Glendale's electrical services Electrical service, in building wiring, refers to the wiring that connects the electric utility's cables in the street to the building. Specifically, electrical service is the wiring from the street, through the meter and up to the panelboard, but no farther. administrator. ``There's a lot of things that are out of our control, but residents should know we are doing our best and we are trying to improve our systems so we can have a marked improvement in reliability.'' About one-third of the city lost electricity March 8, when an animal sparked a transformer fire at a power plant, officials said. And on Feb. 17, 2004, 1,200 GWP customers lost electricity for about two hours after a squirrel squirrel, name for small or medium-sized rodents of the family Sciuridae, found throughout the world except in Australia, Madagascar, and the polar regions; it is applied especially to the tree-living species. chewed through a power line in Montrose. Eleven days earlier, an underground cable explosion cut power in the middle of the day to 800 restaurants, stores and offices in central Glendale for three hours. ``Outages can occur for a variety of reasons, however GWP has a very good track record and a very reliable system,'' said city spokesman Ritch Wells. Abueg said the city experiences seven to 10 outages - usually minor - during a typical month. ``We haven't seen any trends or a particular cause, but it's always a concern,'' he said. Naush Boghossian, (818) 546-3306 naush.boghossian(at)dailynews.com |
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