{"id":341548,"date":"2026-06-01T15:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/341548\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:54:08","slug":"pge-sends-warning-about-balloon-releases-as-families-celebrate-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/341548\/","title":{"rendered":"PG&#038;E sends warning about balloon releases as families celebrate graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 As families continue to celebrate their graduates across Kern County, PG&amp;E is sending a warning against releasing balloons during the festivities.<\/p>\n<p>The utility says metallic balloons can pose serious safety risks when they hit power lines, even causing power outages in some cases.<\/p>\n<p>PG&amp;E Spokesperson Jeff Smith joined ARC Bakersfield to talk about the dangers of releasing balloons and share how families can celebrate safely.<\/p>\n<p>More information about balloon safety can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/investor.pgecorp.com\/news-events\/press-releases\/press-release-details\/2026\/PGE-to-California-Graduates-Celebrate-Safely-by-Securing-Metallic-Balloons\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pgecorp.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 As families continue to celebrate their graduates across Kern County, PG&amp;E is sending a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-341548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}