He said City staff has been inundated with calls from residents tired and angry about the power outages as well as the massive towers that Edison has constructed in Duarte neighborhoods as part of its Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Tower Project, and "are out of valid reasons to give the public as to why the outages keep occurring." The City has given Edison a deadline of Jto state its plan to resolve the lengthy and repetitive outages related to underground equipment failure. "Experience suggests heat combined with the recently identified unstable underground equipment on the Honeywell Circuit will result in monthly or more frequent outages with hours of interruption to residents and businesses in the area," George wrote. Many outages also continue to occur on antiquated underground equipment on Edison's Honeywell circuit. LOS ANGELES COUNTY Duarte Puts Edison on Notice to Address Plans to Resolve Ongoing Power Outages that have Plagued City Since 2007 several months, knocking out power to 2,200 residents and businesses for 12 hours each time on May and on June 27. "National Night Out is the best way to get your neighbors involved and revitalize Neighborhood Watch," he said. "The community's active involvement in crime prevention efforts is essential to fighting crime, protecting property, and ensuring neighborhoods remain safe," said Duarte Public Safety Director, Brian Villalobos in encouraging residents to join in the National Night Out celebration. The crime drug and violence prevention program is designed to send a message to criminals that neighborhoods are organized against crime and fighting back. In all, more than 37 million people are expected to participate in National Night Out 2011, sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch. Duarte will join citizens, law enforcement agencies, civic groups, businesses, neighborhood organizations and local officials from over 10,000 communities. 2 to celebrate a going away party for crime. Thousands of Duarte residents are expected to gather at block parties, cookouts and ice cream socials on Tuesday, Aug. "The Azusa Police Department and the City of Azusa would like to thank Target for their sponsorship of this pro- DUARTE - Beware criminals, Duarte neighborhoods are planning to arm themselves with ice cream sodas, hot dogs and pie for the City's 28th annual National Night Out Against Crime. The free nationwide event, designed to promote crime prevention awareness, will be sponsored by the Azusa Target Store. The event is set to begin at the Target Store located at 809 N. Equipment on the Ambrus Circuit has failed twice in the past AZUSA - The Azusa Police Department and the City of Azusa will observe National Night Out by asking its residents to join them in a one mile walk around the civic center on Tuesday, Augfrom 7:00 P.M. George noted that despite a $4 million upgrade to Edison's Ambrus circuit completed and launched last fall, the upgrade "has neither resolved nor slowed down the problem of frequent outages in Duarte. There have been 18 power outages in Duarte between January and July of In the most recent, on July 12, residents were adversely affected by both a planned outage which shut down electrical power to 56 structures for 7 hours, and an unplanned outage initially affecting more than 2,100 homes, with 300 homes left without power for more than 12 hours. More than half of a list of 42 outages, cited in a letter from City Manager Darrell George to Les Starck, vice president of local public affairs for Edison, shut down power to parts of the City for as many as 5 to 12 hours. For the last four years, Duarte residents and businesses have been plagued with dozens of power outages, most due to breakdowns of antiquated Edison underground equipment. 1 July 28 - AugDUARTE -Frustrated over years of frequent scheduled and unscheduled Southern California Edison power outages which continually disrupt service to Duarte residents and businesses, the City has sent a letter to Edison demanding the utility address plans for correcting the ongoing equipment failures.
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