{"id":135116,"date":"2016-10-07T09:07:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T07:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=135116"},"modified":"2016-10-07T09:16:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T07:16:39","slug":"weather-service-warns-of-strong-winds-and-veld-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/10\/07\/weather-service-warns-of-strong-winds-and-veld-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather service warns of strong winds and veld fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the hot and dry weather persists across the country the South African Weather Service has warned of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weathersa.co.za\/warnings?region=rsa\" target=\"_blank\">extremely high fire danger<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The warning has been issued for Gauteng, the North West and the Free State.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Residents are encouraged to take precautions when travelling.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this warning the weather service has warned of strong, damaging westerly winds that are expected to sweep across the country.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>It is predicted that these winds will be most persistent in the afternoons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/132654\/be-on-alert-in-case-of-veld-fires\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alert: DEMS warns of dangerous veld fire conditions<\/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='774bf08bbbe2ac86f0fbf9dcce27fe56'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Weather Service has warned of potential veld fires across Gauteng, the North West and the Free State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":135117,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,3642],"class_list":["post-135116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-weather"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135116","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\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}