{"id":36056,"date":"2014-12-21T15:45:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T07:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=36056"},"modified":"2014-12-21T15:45:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T07:45:47","slug":"skytrain-service-in-metro-vancouver-area-resumes-after-electrical-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/21\/skytrain-service-in-metro-vancouver-area-resumes-after-electrical-fault\/","title":{"rendered":"SkyTrain service in Metro Vancouver area resumes after electrical fault"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19796\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19796\" style=\"width: 3264px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Vancouver_Skytrain_Rupert_station_train.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19796\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Vancouver_Skytrain_Rupert_station_train.jpg\" alt=\"Rupert Station, Vancouver SkyTrain (Wikipedia photo)\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Vancouver_Skytrain_Rupert_station_train.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Vancouver_Skytrain_Rupert_station_train-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Vancouver_Skytrain_Rupert_station_train-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rupert Station, Vancouver SkyTrain (Wikipedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>VANCOUVER\u2014SkyTrain service was disrupted between two busy stations in the Metro Vancouver area by what transit officials believe was an electrical fault.<\/p>\n<p>Translink says service resumed between the Canada Line between Aberdeen and Richmond-Brighouse stations after being closed for several hours Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A video posted to YouTube showed a flash of electrical sparks and smoke billowing out of a train.<\/p>\n<p>A media relations officer with Richmond RCMP says Richmond Fire responded at about 3 p.m. to reports of smoke on a train.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Hwang says there were no reports of serious injuries or casualties.<\/p>\n<p>He says the only report he received was that a passenger with disabilities had trouble getting away from the scene, but he did not have any further information on the passenger.<\/p>\n<p>Translink did not immediately confirm there was a fire or whether any passengers were on board at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The transit corporation says supervisors and transit police were on site monitoring the situation and early findings indicate there was an electrical fault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER\u2014SkyTrain service was disrupted between two busy stations in the Metro Vancouver area by what transit officials believe was an &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":19796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}