Southern California Edison crews continued to install marker balls in the Saugus area of Santa Clarita Friday afternoon.
Our cameras caught the process which involved a man dangling from a helicopter to attach several 17-pound colored spheres a high tension wire above power lines near San Francisquito Canyon Road and Copper Hill Drive.
Friday’s activity is part of a project to make power lines more visible to low flying aircraft such as the Los Angeles County Fire Department’s Air Operations fleet of helicopters and the Canadair CL-415 Super Scoopers.
Those aircraft often fly low through the area during firefights and encounter obstacles like power lines during those battles.
