{"id":88517,"date":"2017-02-08T19:09:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T00:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=88517"},"modified":"2017-02-08T19:09:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T00:09:39","slug":"trans-canada-highway-reopens-after-avalanche-in-british-columbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/08\/trans-canada-highway-reopens-after-avalanche-in-british-columbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans Canada Highway reopens after avalanche in British Columbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_88518\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88518\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13937744036_150edbac89_k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88518\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13937744036_150edbac89_k.jpg\" alt=\"The Trans-Canada Highway has reopened after an avalanche rolled across the road in southeastern British Columbia. (Photo: Dave Blogg\/ Flickr)\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13937744036_150edbac89_k.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13937744036_150edbac89_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13937744036_150edbac89_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13937744036_150edbac89_k-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Trans-Canada Highway has reopened after an avalanche rolled across the road in southeastern British Columbia. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/davebloggs007\">Dave Blogg\/ Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LAKE LOUISE, Alta. \u2013The Trans-Canada Highway has reopened after an avalanche rolled across the road in southeastern British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>The slide happened on Mount Stephen in Yoho National Park early Wednesday and officials say there were no injuries.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from Parks Canada says all vehicles and drivers in the vicinity were safely turned around.<\/p>\n<p>The highway was closed in both directions from Field to Alberta for several hours before it reopened.<\/p>\n<p>But the Transportation Ministry says a winter storm that was expected to bring heavy snow to the area meant it was possible the road could be closed again.<\/p>\n<p>Its advisory says avalanche control was likely and travellers were encouraged to drive with caution.<\/p>\n<p>Field fire Chief Jamieson Harbottle said no vehicles were hit by Wednesday&#8217;s early morning slide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was one truck that tried to drive through the debris, but there was no one involved in the avalanche.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAKE LOUISE, Alta. \u2013The Trans-Canada Highway has reopened after an avalanche rolled across the road in southeastern British Columbia. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":88518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[393,5284],"class_list":["post-88517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-british-columbia","tag-trans-canada-highway","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88517","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}