{"id":11842,"date":"2017-10-03T12:17:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T19:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=11842"},"modified":"2017-10-03T14:55:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T21:55:37","slug":"smart-meter-fire-at-quinte-west-fire-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=11842","title":{"rendered":"Smart Meter Fire at Quinte West FIRE HALL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/hydroOne_TrilliantFocus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-11848\" alt=\"hydro meter -file\" src=\"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/hydroOne_TrilliantFocus-1024x717.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/hydroOne_TrilliantFocus-1024x717.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/hydroOne_TrilliantFocus-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/hydroOne_TrilliantFocus.jpg 1199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/trenton_side.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"trenton\" src=\"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/trenton.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>October 1st, 2017 by\u00a0<a title=\"Posts by Brock Ormond\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quintenews.com\/author\/brock\/\" rel=\"author\">Brock Ormond<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trenton \/ Quinte, Ontario<\/p>\n<p>The Quinte West Fire department\u2019s response to a late Saturday afternoon fire was very fast \u2013 it was at their own station.<\/p>\n<p>Around 5 p.m. yesterday, Fire Captain Chris Wigley and another firefighter were in the office at their headquarters on 165 Front Street in Trenton when they heard a cracking and popping sound that caused the\u00a0lights in the building to immediately go out.<\/p>\n<p>As the two men were preparing to\u00a0investigate,\u00a0smoke started coming out of the fuse panel, causing the smoke detector to go off.<\/p>\n<p>Once outside, they discovered the hydro meter on the building had caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze was promptly put out. Hydro One was called in, as well as an electrician.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no damage estimate as of yet, according to Quinte West Fire Chief John Whalen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quintenews.com\/2017\/10\/fire-quinte-west-fire-hall\/158461\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">http:\/\/www.quintenews.com\/2017\/10\/fire-quinte-west-fire-hall\/158461\/<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/quinte.cioc.ca\/record\/KGN1058\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Hydro One Smart Meter<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hydroone.com\/rates-and-billing\/meters\/smart-meters\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Landis &amp; Gyr Focus Meter<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; October 1st, 2017 by\u00a0Brock Ormond Trenton \/ Quinte, Ontario The Quinte West Fire department\u2019s response to a late Saturday afternoon fire was very fast \u2013 it was at their own station. Around 5 p.m. yesterday, Fire Captain Chris Wigley and another firefighter were in the office at their headquarters on 165 Front Street in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,460,103,126,255,188,108,459,19,18,457,458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bchydro","category-belleville","category-canada","category-fire","category-fire-station","category-hydro-one","category-itron","category-landis-gyr-focus","category-ontario","category-smart-meter","category-trenton","category-trilliant-focus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11842"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11868,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11842\/revisions\/11868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}