Power outages can be life-threatening with this extreme Valley heat.

It's especially troublesome for the elderly or people with medical conditions.

One Valley man emailed the ABC15 Investigators about unexplained overnight blackouts over a few weeks.

He's mostly concerned because he and his daughter have asthma and need cool temperatures to breathe well.

"It's almost like a drowning feeling and that's what happened the last three weekends for me," he remembered.

The man says it happened on three recent and consecutive Saturday nights.


He says the power was off for a total of about eight hours, and the whole neighborhood was affected, including street lights.

He wondered if it was something scheduled, but received no word about that.

SRP is the electricity provider for his Queen Creek neighborhood.

SRP tells the Investigators that on July 23rd, "a substation transformer tripped" for less than two hours.

They say on August 6th, it happened again for an hour.

"It appears this customer had the unfortunate coincidence to experience a brief power outage on at least two different occasions at approximately the same time....We are inspecting that substation transformer," SRP said.

The man tells us the power outages have not happened since then.

This man did not contact SRP first, saying the next day it wasn't an issue.

But whether you have SRP or APS as an electricity provider, you're encouraged to contact them as soon as possible.

Contact SRP at 602-236-8811 or visit them online .

Contact APS at 602-371-7171 or visit them online.

And remember to contact me with any consumer issues you have by emailing jducey@abc15.com or go to my ABC15 Facebook page.