{"id":108705,"date":"2015-12-17T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/108705\/vandals-cause-power-outage-2\/"},"modified":"2015-12-17T11:51:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T09:51:01","slug":"vandals-cause-power-outage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/12\/17\/vandals-cause-power-outage-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandals cause power outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The metro\u2019s technicians are currently on site carrying out repair work following an act of vandalism at the Actom Road substation in Germiston.<\/p>\n<p>This has left residents and businesses without power since last night.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Two transformers at the substation have been damaged and have lost approximately 20 000 litres of oil.<\/p>\n<p>This has resulted in a power supply interruption to the following areas:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Wadeville;<\/li>\n<li>Castleview;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Estera;<\/li>\n<li>Dinwiddie; and<\/li>\n<li>Albemarle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Technicians are working around the clock to ensure that power is restored by midnight.<\/p>\n<p>Residents are reminded to treat all electrical networks and equipment as electrically live at all times.<\/p>\n<p>The metro apologises for any inconvenience caused.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/108466\/metro-takes-three-months-to-repair-cables\/\" target=\"_blank\">Metro takes three months to repair cables<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/108440\/metro-relaxes-water-restrictions\/\" target=\"_blank\">Metro relaxes water restrictions<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='a24c18ed1f53c7fcb7c1e7018d2714f8'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acts of vandalism affect power supply to parts of Germiston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":108707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,8515,2],"tags":[989,1003,979,969,2734,1002,1004,4320,4626,9219],"class_list":["post-108705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-power","tag-power-outage","tag-vandals"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["crime","Ekurhuleni","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","metro","municipality","power","Power outage","vandals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}