{"id":964675,"date":"2024-07-07T19:25:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T19:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964675"},"modified":"2024-07-07T19:25:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T19:25:37","slug":"appeal-for-joburg-residents-to-be-cautious-around-heating-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/appeal-for-joburg-residents-to-be-cautious-around-heating-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal for residents to be cautious around heating devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg Emergency Services has advised residents to be extra cautious whilst using heating devices tonight, as a cold front is expected to hit the the city.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures are expected to plummet overnight to around -2 \u00b0C, peaking at around 10 \u00b0C tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XgeQbUE9ykY?si=vxMmmOwW2j5Y4WoK\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Joburg EMS spokesperson Robert Mulaudzi says they remain on high alert.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s freezing temperatures in the City overnight and residents are urged to exercise caution when using heating devices like heaters and paraffin stoves and so on, not to leave them unattended while in use so that we can be able to prevent fire incidents. From our side at EMS, we remain on high alert monitoring any occurrence which might occur.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Freezing temperatures <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CityofJoburgZA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@CityofJoburgZA<\/a> tonight residents are urged to exercise caution when using heating devices#Heaters not to leave them unattended while in use to prevent fire incidents at home@CityofJoburgEMS remain on high alert over night <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CoJPublicSafety?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@CoJPublicSafety<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SaferJoburg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SaferJoburg<\/a> (RM) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/La3LF62t6S\">pic.twitter.com\/La3LF62t6S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 City of Joburg EMS (@CityofJoburgEMS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CityofJoburgEMS\/status\/1809987784222065001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 7, 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>Joburg EMS urges residents to be cautious when using heating devices amid cold front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":964676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[713,820,821],"class_list":["post-964675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-cold-front","tag-heating-devices","tag-joburg-ems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964675","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\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}