{"id":421283,"date":"2026-08-02T01:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T01:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/421283\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T01:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T01:04:07","slug":"power-outage-hits-hollywood-hills-brentwood-amid-major-heat-wave-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/421283\/","title":{"rendered":"Power outage hits Hollywood Hills, Brentwood amid major heat wave \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An hours-long power outage was impacting the Hollywood Hills and Brentwood as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/weather-news\/la-heat-forecast-weekend-temperatures\/39\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">heat wave reached peak temperatures<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Some neighbors say their power went out around 6 p.m. Friday and lasted for more than 17 hours, leaving families to deal with the dangerous heat without air conditioning.<\/p>\n<p>By 11:30 a.m. Saturday, data from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power showed the power was still out for 40 homes.<\/p>\n<p>The department said the outages in those areas were linked to an underground circuit that had to be repaired and that crews were working around the clock to fix it.<\/p>\n<p>According to the LADWP&#8217;s &#8220;Power Outage Map,&#8221; the power was fixed in those communities by 3:30 p.m. But people whose power was knocked out overnight say they&#8217;re frustrated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s kind of sad and can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s still happening,&#8221; Hollywood Hills resident George Ganim told NBCLA. &#8220;They&#8217;ve got to fix that, really. It&#8217;s been happening a lot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Heat advisories and extreme heat warnings will remain in place across Southern California through Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>NBC Los Angeles reached out to the LADWP for a response to neighbors&#8217; concerns and to ask how many customers were impacted at the peak of the outage but has not yet heard back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An hours-long power outage was impacting the Hollywood Hills and Brentwood as a heat wave reached peak temperatures&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3642,5014,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-421283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-brentwood","tag-hollywood-hills","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421283","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=421283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}