{"id":400609,"date":"2025-09-05T18:12:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T18:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/400609\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T18:12:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T18:12:27","slug":"bristol-power-cut-hundreds-lose-power-as-smoke-pours-from-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/400609\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol power cut: Hundreds lose power as smoke pours from ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are responding to a power cut in central Bristol affecting 1,500 properties that was reported to us at 4.22pm,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There has been a fault on our high voltage underground network which engineers are investigating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We apologise for any inconvenience that&#8217;s being caused and aim to get supplies reconnected by 18:00.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An Avon Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said crews found and extinguished a fire &#8220;under the manhole cover which we believed to be connected to electric cables&#8221; at about 16:00 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fire service said it believed the fire was connected &#8220;to the power infrastructure in the area&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added crews were called to a separate report of black smoke and flames in the same area at 17:09 BST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We are responding to a power cut in central Bristol affecting 1,500 properties that was reported to us&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-400609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115153046437868638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}