An errant balloon making contact with an electric wire caused more than 5,000 customers in Laguna Beach to lose power for a little more than an hour on Monday, a Southern California Edison spokesman said.

At about 4:45 p.m. on Monday, March 26, the metallic balloon made contact with a wire at the corner of Cliff and Acacia in Laguna Beach, taking two circuits out of commission, said Robert Villegas, an SCE spokesman.

Workers from SCE were able to clear the balloon and restore power for the vast majority of customers by 5:55 p.m., Villegas said.

Villegas said there has been an increase of incidents involving these metallic balloons recently. In 2017, SCE saw a record broken with more than 1,100 incidents being caused by the popular balloons.