{"id":41448,"date":"2015-02-08T19:23:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T11:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=41448"},"modified":"2015-02-08T19:23:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T11:23:52","slug":"bus-crash-in-richmond-knocks-out-power-to-thousands-of-bc-hydro-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/08\/bus-crash-in-richmond-knocks-out-power-to-thousands-of-bc-hydro-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus crash in Richmond knocks out power to thousands of BC Hydro customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_41484\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41484\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/BC-Hydro-Stave-Falls-Dam-Powerhouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-41484 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/BC-Hydro-Stave-Falls-Dam-Powerhouse-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"BC Hydro Stave Falls Dam and Powerhouse (Wikipedia photo)\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/BC-Hydro-Stave-Falls-Dam-Powerhouse-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/BC-Hydro-Stave-Falls-Dam-Powerhouse-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/BC-Hydro-Stave-Falls-Dam-Powerhouse.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BC Hydro Stave Falls Dam and Powerhouse (Wikipedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>RICHMOND, B.C. &#8212; Thousands of homes in Richmond, B.C., were without power this morning after a transit bus crashed into a power pole at No. 3 Road and Steveston Highway.<\/p>\n<p>BC Hydro spokesperson Simi Heer says about 5,000 customers experienced power outages at about 9:20 a.m. following the crash.<\/p>\n<p>At that time crews began switching customers to different circuits to restore their power, and by midday, just over 760 customers in Richmond were still in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>Heer says some customers will be without power until later this afternoon or early this evening, as BC Hydro crews work to replace the damaged pole.<\/p>\n<p>Richmond RCMP Acting Cpl. Dennis Hwang says there were no passengers on the bus at the time of the crash, and the driver was taken to hospital with non-serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Hwang is warning people to avoid the scene as it is dangerous due to power lines being down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RICHMOND, B.C. &#8212; Thousands of homes in Richmond, B.C., were without power this morning after a transit bus crashed into &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":41484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41448","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=41448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}