{"id":78466,"date":"2015-01-14T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/78466\/heavy-downpour-leads-to-road-being-closed\/"},"modified":"2015-01-14T13:19:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T11:19:50","slug":"heavy-downpour-leads-to-road-being-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/01\/14\/heavy-downpour-leads-to-road-being-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy downpour leads to road being closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ekurhuleni Disaster and Emergency Management Services (DEMS) from the Germiston Central Fire Station, responded to a call of flooding, last Thursday, at the intersection of Rand Refinery and Barlow roads.<\/p>\n<p>This happened after the industrial area experienced extremely heavy rain in a short space of time, causing most of the roads to become flooded.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The intersection was closed for safety reasons until all the water had drained away through the storm water drains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe call was received at about around 4.30pm and on arrival, emergency service members closed the intersection until about 5.30pm, when the road surface was clear again,\u201d said William Ntladi, media liaison officer for DEMS.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cNo drowning incidents or accidents were reported following the flood.\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='fc81b42f320efec274d758be937d2b40'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Road recently closed due to flooding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":78469,"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":[1442,5660,979,969,6278,2734,3035],"class_list":["post-78466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-ekurhuleni-emergency-services","tag-flooding","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-fire-station","tag-melissa-hart","tag-rain"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["ekurhuleni emergency services","flooding","germiston","germiston city news","germiston fire station","melissa hart","rain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78466","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=78466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}