Rolling Blackouts Affect Granada Hills Businesses, Schools

This morning, intermittent power failures plagued businesses along Chatsworth Street from Balboa -- Staples reported being without power for two hours -- to Zelzah -- Granada Hills Charter High School and businesses in the OSH Shopping Center.

"We were totally without power for two hours, and now it's just going off an on," a Staples employee said.

LADWP representatives could not be reached for comment about the source of the trouble.

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