{"id":3720,"date":"2014-03-08T08:24:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T16:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=3720"},"modified":"2014-03-08T08:32:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T16:32:08","slug":"garbage-truck-pulls-down-poles-knocks-out-power-for-hundreds-in-nova-scotia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/08\/garbage-truck-pulls-down-poles-knocks-out-power-for-hundreds-in-nova-scotia\/","title":{"rendered":"Garbage truck pulls down poles, knocks out power for hundreds in Nova Scotia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3731\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3731\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3731\" alt=\"Photo by Coolcaesar \/ Wikimedia Commons\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2.jpg 624w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Coolcaesar \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NORTH SYDNEY, N.S.\u2014Nova Scotia Power says nearly 700 people are without power in North Sydney after a garbage truck pulled down two utility poles.<\/p>\n<p>Spokeswoman Stacey Pineau says the truck was driving through the intersection of Blowers and Pierce streets around 7 a.m. Saturday when it clipped an electrical wire and pulled down two poles on opposite sides of the road.<\/p>\n<p>She says no one was injured.<\/p>\n<p>Pineau says repairing the damage is complicated and will take some time, as a backhoe needs to dig in the area and a transport truck will deliver two new power poles.<\/p>\n<p>Most customers are expected to have their power restored around 5 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NORTH SYDNEY, N.S.\u2014Nova Scotia Power says nearly 700 people are without power in North Sydney after a garbage truck pulled &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":3731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720","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=3720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}