{"id":74669,"date":"2014-11-28T08:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T06:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/74669\/trees-continue-to-cause-electrical-problems\/"},"modified":"2014-11-27T14:17:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T12:17:18","slug":"trees-continue-to-cause-electrical-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/11\/28\/trees-continue-to-cause-electrical-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Trees continue to cause electrical problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trees continue to interfere with power lines in the Germiston area.<\/p>\n<p>This time the GCN was alerted to a problem in Gerdview.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>A disgruntled resident contacted the GCN claiming his power had gone off and that, despite calls to the metro, he had received no help.<\/p>\n<p>The GCN contacted the metro to get answers on what had caused this unexpected outage and when it would be addressed.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Lebogang Ramashala, senior media officer with the metro\u2019s communications and brand management department, responded to the GCN\u2019s queries with the following statement: \u201cThe power has been restored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cause of the problem was two fuses that had burnt at the transformer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe red and white were fuses replaced due to overhead lines touching.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem was the result of trees interfering with the lines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArrangements will be made to cut 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='447923cb2835ac5d123ba77dc1f2b08a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro plans to prune trees that are interfering with power lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":74685,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1373,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004,5808,1965],"class_list":["post-74669","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-pruning","tag-trees"],"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","pruning","trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74669","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=74669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}