Another odd Halloween Eve incident occurred earlier in the day, when the Santa Paula Fire Department was notified that a gas line had been ruptured on in the 700 block of East Virginia Terrace. “We had two calls of a gas leak that were initially reported as a three-inch broken gas line caused by a tree removal,” said SPFD Captain Jerry Byrum.“Upon arrival we did confirm that there was a broken gas line, but it was a 3/4 inch line, not a three-inch line.... It was secured by SPFD personnel and then the Gas Company came out and the incident was turned over to them.”
Spooky outage as city phone system fails temporarily
November 07, 2007
Santa Paula News
Halloween Eve brought a spooky problem to the city’s phone system, which went down during the evening and then mysteriously came back up, according to City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz, who was notified that the phones had died during a special Council meeting.
By Peggy KellySanta Paula TimesHalloween Eve brought a spooky problem to the city’s phone system, which went down during the evening and then mysteriously came back up, according to City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz, who was notified that the phones had died during a special Council meeting. The phone system, including 911 emergency dispatch, “was only out for 15 to 20 minutes and we never did find out what happened to it... it came back up and we left it at that.”Bobkiewicz noted that any calls placed to the 911 emergency dispatch line “automatically went to the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department,” which in turn would have notified the Santa Paula Police and Fire Departments by radio. Bobkiewicz said that the failure and startup was a mystery: “When we were talking to Verizon about fixing it the system came back up... and that was that.”
