{"id":109096,"date":"2015-12-18T17:49:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T15:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=109096"},"modified":"2015-12-18T17:50:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T15:50:41","slug":"work-still-underway-to-repair-vandalised-substation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/12\/18\/work-still-underway-to-repair-vandalised-substation\/","title":{"rendered":"Work still underway to repair vandalised substation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Ekurhuleni technicians are continuing to work around the clock to effect repairs at the vandalised Atom Road substation in order to restore power to parts of Germiston.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Technicians worked through the day yesterday in an effort to restore power by midnight, however, due to heavy rains which swept through the area yesterday, repairs were unsuccessful.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">An act of vandalism at the facility on Wednesday night led to approximately 20 000 litres of oil being lost, thus causing damage to the substation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">To remedy the situation, engineers will install a transformer in order to fast-track the restoration of power supply.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Areas that are affected include:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>*Wadeville;<\/p>\n<p>*Castleview;<\/p>\n<p>*Estera;<\/p>\n<p>*Dinwiddie; and<\/p>\n<p>*Albemarle.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Residents are reminded to treat all electrical networks and equipment as electrically live at all times.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The metro apologises for any inconvenience caused.<\/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='c354ec00a861dcae9a4a276ea41d2590'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some areas of Germiston still without power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"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":[8515,2],"tags":[1373,979,969,2734,1002,1004,4320,4626],"class_list":["post-109096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-electricity","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-power","tag-power-outage"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["electricity","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","metro","municipality","power","Power outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109096","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\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109096\/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=109096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}