{"id":126452,"date":"2016-07-02T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/126452\/paramedics-respond-to-taxi-on-fire\/"},"modified":"2016-07-01T16:43:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T14:43:25","slug":"paramedics-respond-to-taxi-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/07\/02\/paramedics-respond-to-taxi-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramedics respond to taxi on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ER24 paramedics attended to a taxi incident on the N3 highway, just after Grey Avenue, last Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon arrival, paramedics found the taxi well alight,\u201d said Chitra Bodasing, spokesman for ER24.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Ekurhuleni Disaster Management and Emergency Services members extinguished the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>The taxi driver was not found on scene.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt is understood that there were no passengers in the vehicle at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe exact cause of the incident is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAuthorities were on scene for further investigation,\u201d said Bodasing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be\u00a0 interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/126231\/update-police-give-details-of-lead-up-to-n3-highway-accident\/\" target=\"_blank\">Update: Shoot-out between cops and criminals leads to accident<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/126132\/four-dead-11-injured-in-accident\/\" target=\"_blank\">Four dead, 11 injured when fleeing criminals crash into taxi<\/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='aa98cb7b90fd2dfbb5ef629f6d719275'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A taxi burst into flames on the N3 highway, last Friday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":126453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1824,1128,979,969,2734,6596,10280,7391],"class_list":["post-126452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-er24","tag-fire","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-n3-highway","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["ER24","fire","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","N3 highway","taxi","taxi accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126452","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=126452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}