{"id":94733,"date":"2015-07-17T18:11:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T16:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=94733"},"modified":"2015-07-17T18:15:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T16:15:36","slug":"technicians-working-to-restore-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/07\/17\/technicians-working-to-restore-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Technicians working to restore power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">T<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;line-height: 1.5\">he metro wishes to inform residents and businesses in parts of Germiston that it is aware of the power outage affecting the area.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;line-height: 1.5\">The interruption is due to a fault at the Tedstoneville substation which has left customers in Dukathole Extensions 8 and 9, Tedstoneville, NCP, Enterprise and surrounding areas without power since last night.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;line-height: 1.5\">Although technicians managed to restore power through another source this morning, it lasted for only 20 minutes and then it went off again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">&#8220;Technicians are now working around the clock to pinpoint the location of the fault. As soon they have identified it, they will begin with repairs,&#8221; explained Ekurhuleni spokesman Themba Gadebe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">&#8220;This process is anticipated to continue well into this evening, however, work will continue until all affected customers&#8217; power has been restored&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;line-height: 1.5\">The metro wishes to apologise for any inconvenience caused by the outage and reminds consumers to treat all electrical appliances as electrical alive at all times.\u00a0<\/span><\/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='452ad31dd294133211b4d39da271d32c'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro working to restore power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":94307,"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":[1003,1373,979,969,2734,1002,1004,4320],"class_list":["post-94733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-electricity","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-power"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["Ekurhuleni","electricity","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","metro","municipality","power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94733","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\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}