{"id":40355,"date":"2015-01-30T00:31:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T16:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=40355"},"modified":"2015-01-30T00:31:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T16:31:55","slug":"boil-advisory-hard-to-follow-when-power-outage-hits-some-winnipeg-neighbourhoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/30\/boil-advisory-hard-to-follow-when-power-outage-hits-some-winnipeg-neighbourhoods\/","title":{"rendered":"Boil advisory hard to follow when power outage hits some Winnipeg neighbourhoods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/shutterstock_162244718.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40403\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/shutterstock_162244718.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_162244718\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/shutterstock_162244718.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/shutterstock_162244718-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WINNIPEG &#8212; Insult was added to injury in Winnipeg when thousands of people already facing a city-wide boil-water advisory couldn&#8217;t turn on their stoves because of a power outage.<\/p>\n<p>About 9,000 Manitoba Hydro customers were left in the dark Wednesday evening when a power pole in a northwest neighbourhood caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>Around 4,000 people were brought back online shortly after 9 p.m., but the rest had to wait until very early Thursday morning before their service was restored.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no word on the cause of the fire, but repair crews had to rebuild the pole.<\/p>\n<p>The boil advisory, which sparked a run on bottled water, was issued on Tuesday after routine testing found coliform and E. coli at extremely low levels in six of 39 water samples.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are hoping another round of tests expected Thursday will confirm the city&#8217;s water supply is safe and allow them to lift the advisory.<\/p>\n<p>Further testing came back clean on Wednesday but regulations require two clean tests in a row before the all-clear can be declared.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Brian Bowman said the city&#8217;s experts have concluded it&#8217;s likely the original samples were false-positives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG &#8212; Insult was added to injury in Winnipeg when thousands of people already facing a city-wide boil-water advisory couldn&#8217;t &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":40403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40355","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\/40355","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=40355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}