{"id":202647,"date":"2018-03-02T21:32:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T11:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=202647"},"modified":"2020-08-06T14:22:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T04:22:03","slug":"tree-branch-snaps-powerlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2018\/03\/02\/tree-branch-snaps-powerlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree Branch Snaps Powerlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_202648\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-202648\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180302branch1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-202648\" title=\"20180302 Branch\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180302branch1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180302branch1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180302branch1-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-202648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A classic &#8216;widow maker&#8217; branch snapped off unexpectedly from a tree in River Road on Friday at lunchtime, blacking out large parts of Kingaroy &#8230; the heavy eucalypt branch snapped multiple powerlines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>March 2, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than 900 Ergon Energy customers in the Kingaroy area were left without power when a tree branch severed multiple powerlines in River Road on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The large branch fell suddenly just after noon in still, hot weather.<\/p>\n<p>On February 14, a similar incident in the same spot during a storm damaged high and low voltage powerlines, causing an eight-hour blackout.<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s blackout was of shorter duration &#8211; about seven hours &#8211; but disrupted businesses in the Kingaroy Industrial Estate, nearby houses and eastern parts of the CBD.<\/p>\n<p>Ergon Energy crews, firefighters and police were quickly on the scene.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related article: <a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2018\/02\/wild-winds-leave-mess-behind\/\">Wild Winds Leave Mess Behind<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_202649\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-202649\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180302branch2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-202649\" title=\"20180302 Branch\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180302branch2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180302branch2.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180302branch2-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-202649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The top parts of the severed branch hang off some of the River Road powerlines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_202650\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-202650\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180302branch3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-202650\" title=\"20180302 Branch\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180302branch3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180302branch3.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180302branch3-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-202650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ergon Energy brought in specialist equipment to work on the broken powerlines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 900 Ergon Energy customers in the Kingaroy area were left without power when a tree branch severed multiple powerlines in River Road on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":202648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[32],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tree Branch Snaps Powerlines<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"More than 900 Ergon Energy customers in the Kingaroy area were left without power when a tree branch severed multiple powerlines in River Road on Friday.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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