{"id":638127,"date":"2026-03-07T07:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/638127\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T07:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:04:15","slug":"thick-smoke-in-norridge-after-fallen-powerline-burns-through-fence-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/638127\/","title":{"rendered":"Thick smoke in Norridge after fallen powerline burns through fence \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smoke filled part of a northwest suburb of Chicago after a downed powerline burnt through a fence in the area Friday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>Around 12:40 p.m., authorities responded to a downed powerline on the 4300 block of North Neva Avenue in Norridge.<\/p>\n<p>Thick smoke filled the area after the fallen powerline burned through a wooden fence, the Norridge Fire Department said. <\/p>\n<p>The fence appears to be enclosing the yard of Dobbs Pre-School, located at 7131 Pensacola Ave. <\/p>\n<p>A large, singed hole could be seen in the otherwise white fence in video posted by witnesses to social media. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/fence-hole.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Several police vehicles and fire trucks could also be seen in the area as authorities handled the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Though authorities did not state what caused the powerline to come down, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/weather\/severe-weather-chances-loom-over-chicago-with-2-rounds-of-storms-and-lots-of-lightning\/3903979\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">storms moved through the Chicago area Friday morning and into the afternoon<\/a>, bringing thunder, lighting and heavy rain. <\/p>\n<p>Dobbs Pre-School did not immediately respond to NBC Chicago&#8217;s inquiry. <\/p>\n<p>No additional information was immediately available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smoke filled part of a northwest suburb of Chicago after a downed powerline burnt through a fence in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":638128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,4216,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-638127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-fires","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116186622688679554","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}