{"id":71242,"date":"2014-10-21T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/71242\/power-cut-by-tree-branches\/"},"modified":"2014-10-21T11:23:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T09:23:17","slug":"power-cut-by-tree-branches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/10\/21\/power-cut-by-tree-branches\/","title":{"rendered":"Power cut by tree branches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, the Germiston City News received a call from DJ van Wyk, an Elsburg resident.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wyk said the power in his street, Rademeyer Street, had been out since Thursday.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Shortly after his call, the GCN began to receive more calls from disgruntled residents, from Du Plooy and Steven streets, which neighbour Rademeyer Street.<\/p>\n<p>Residents believed that either a fuse had blown or that the trees, whose branches touched and tampered with the power cables, were causing the outage.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The GCN approached the metro for urgent comment on what was causing the problem and when it would be rectified.<\/p>\n<p>Senior media officer in the metro\u2019s department of communication and brand management Lebogang Ramashala said: \u201cPower was restored to the area on the same day the complaint was lodged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem was, confirmed, caused by the trees.\u201d<\/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='92a9788422b219fa59a82b363da5fbfb'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elsburg residents power cut by tree branches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":71252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Leigh Hodgson","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8515,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1373,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004,4626,5264,1965,5265],"class_list":["post-71242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-electricity","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-power-outage","tag-power-restored","tag-trees","tag-trees-tamper-with-power-cables"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","electricity","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality","Power outage","Power Restored","trees","trees tamper with power cables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71242","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=71242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}