{"id":100981,"date":"2019-08-29T09:56:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T07:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=100981"},"modified":"2019-08-29T12:05:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T10:05:53","slug":"drama-police-station-electrical-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/08\/29\/drama-police-station-electrical-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Drama at Police Station after electrical fault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police officers and residents rushed out of the station when they realised there was a funny smell of cables burning inside the building.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-100989\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/08\/policefire-1-Copy-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2019\/08\/policefire-1-Copy-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2019\/08\/policefire-1-Copy-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The fire brigade was called to the scene, although no smoke was detected. The fire brigade is currently observing the scene while the electricians look at the damage.<br \/>\nThe hiccup has not halted services.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-100987\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/08\/policefire-2-Copy-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2019\/08\/policefire-2-Copy-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2019\/08\/policefire-2-Copy-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A table has been placed outside and residents are still able to certify their documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electrical cable failure has caused a fire scare at the Middelburg Police Station this morning. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":100985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Tiisetso Malunga","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[20379,20378,20377,10010,12898,4753,4755,10333],"class_list":["post-100981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-electrical-fault-causes-fire-at-police-station","tag-fire-at-middelburg-police-station","tag-fire-at-middelburg-saps","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-middelburg-police-station","tag-middelburg-saps","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["electrical fault causes fire at police station","fire at middelburg police station","fire at middelburg saps","local news","middelburg news","Middelburg police station","Middelburg SAPS","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}