{"id":5375,"date":"2015-01-16T13:31:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T20:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=5375"},"modified":"2015-01-16T17:21:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T00:21:46","slug":"chilliwack-smart-meter-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=5375","title":{"rendered":"Chilliwack Smart Meter Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 align=\"left\"><em><b>Moody Meter Fire<\/b><\/em><\/h2>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Blaze apparently caused by smart meter explosion<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Friday, January 16, 2015<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5376\" alt=\"chilliwack\" src=\"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/chilliwack.png\" width=\"678\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/chilliwack.png 1130w, https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/chilliwack-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/chilliwack-1024x697.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><i><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;\">Staff\/Voice photos<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Chilliwack fire crews were at the scene of a blaze on Moody Ave. apparently caused when a smart meter exploded.<\/span><br \/>\nuestions have risen over the safety of smart meters after reports that one exploded and caused a fire around 1 a.m. Tuesday, January 6 at a house in the 45000-block of Moody Ave.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters responded and apparently cut into the wall where the meter was in order to access the fire which had crept into the wall of the home.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that the Chilliwack Fire Department is still investigating this blaze, and so have yet to comment in a release.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stop Smart Meters, insists that fire departments and crews are under gag orders not to talk about smart meters or risk being fired.<\/p>\n<p>Are smart meters really safe? There are reports that water gets into some smart meters causing them to short out and catch fire or explode. It&#8217;s unclear what kind of risk factors are involved with smart meters.<\/p>\n<p>For now, the best thing you can do is make sure that your smoke detectors work, that you&#8217;re wired in with an alarm system and have proper fire insurance coverage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about what Stop Smart Meters has to say about the devices\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopsmartmetersbc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/TruthAboutFires-TheReport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See more photos<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevalleyvoice.ca\/Voice%20Stories\/january%202015\/smart%20meter%20explosion%20causes%20house%20fire%20-%20january-16-2015.htm\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">http:\/\/www.thevalleyvoice.ca\/Voice%20Stories\/january%202015\/smart%20meter%20explosion%20causes%20house%20fire%20-%20january-16-2015.htm<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopsmartmetersbc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/TruthAboutFires-TheReport.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"firepdf\" src=\"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/firepdf.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moody Meter Fire Blaze apparently caused by smart meter explosion Friday, January 16, 2015 Staff\/Voice photos Chilliwack fire crews were at the scene of a blaze on Moody Ave. apparently caused when a smart meter exploded. uestions have risen over the safety of smart meters after reports that one exploded and caused a fire around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,51,231,126,3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bchydro","category-chilliwack","category-explosion","category-fire","category-health_and_safety","category-smart-meter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375","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=5375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5383,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions\/5383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}