{"id":78962,"date":"2014-08-24T20:23:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T10:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=78962"},"modified":"2020-11-27T13:33:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T03:33:07","slug":"fire-sparks-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/08\/24\/fire-sparks-blackout\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Sparks Blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_78964\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78964\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140824power1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-78964\" title=\"20140824 Yarraman blackout\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140824power1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140824power1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140824power1-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-78964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ergon Energy repair crews and firefighters in Browne Street, Yarraman, today<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>August 24, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An ex-possum is believed to have caused a blackout in Yarraman this afternoon which knocked Wild Horse FM off air for about 90 minutes and left about 400 local residents without power.<\/p>\n<p>The blackout also triggered alarms in the Bendigo Bank branch.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were called to the corner of the D&#8217;Aguilar Highway and Browne Street about 1:50pm to extinguish a small fire on a power pole.<\/p>\n<p>Flames damaged a crossbar and the main pole.<\/p>\n<p>Power was fully restored by Ergon Energy crews and repairs completed by 4:35pm.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_78963\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78963\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140824power3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-78963\" title=\"20140824 Yarraman blackout\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140824power3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140824power3.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140824power3-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-78963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire damaged the main pole and burned through a crossbar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ex-possum is believed to have caused a blackout in Yarraman on Sunday afternoon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":78964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,24],"tags":[90,1132],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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