{"id":964366,"date":"2024-07-05T04:24:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T04:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964366"},"modified":"2024-07-05T04:24:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T04:24:23","slug":"joburg-residents-urged-to-be-cautious-with-heaters-amidst-cold-spell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/joburg-residents-urged-to-be-cautious-with-heaters-amidst-cold-spell\/","title":{"rendered":"Joburg residents urged to be cautious with heaters amidst cold spell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg Emergency Management Services (Joburg EMS) has warned residents to exercise extreme caution when using heating devices as temperatures are set to dip into single digits.<\/p>\n<p>Unattended heaters and other such devices can be the cause of serious fire incidents.<\/p>\n<p>EMS Spokesperson, Robert Mulaudzi says,\u00a0&#8220;As the City of Joburg EMS, we remain on high alert overnight monitoring all seven regions of the City of Johannesburg for any emergencies which might occur.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Freezing temperatures in most parts of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CityofJoburgZA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@CityofJoburgZA<\/a> overnight residents are urged to exercise caution when using heating devices, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CityofJoburgEMS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@CityofJoburgEMS<\/a> remains on high alert over night monitoring all 7 regions of the City,let&#8217;s stop winter fires.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SaferJoburg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SaferJoburg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JoburgFireSafety?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#JoburgFireSafety<\/a>(RM)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 City of Joburg EMS (@CityofJoburgEMS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CityofJoburgEMS\/status\/1808922783348293983?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unattended heaters and other such devices can be the cause of serious fire incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":964367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}