{"id":255400,"date":"2017-06-30T06:02:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T20:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=255400"},"modified":"2017-06-30T06:02:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T20:02:25","slug":"trailer-drags-cable-causes-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/trailer-drags-cable-causes-power-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailer drags cable, causes power outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_255401\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-255401\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Outage-pix.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-255401\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Outage-pix-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Commonwealth Utilities Corp. crewmembers fix the power line along Chalan Pale Arnold in Tanapag yesterday afternoon. A tractor-trailer with a 40-footer container of Best Sunshine accidentally dragged a Docomo cable wire, causing a telephone pole to fall and triggering a power outage in the area. (Ferdie de la Torre)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-255401\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-255401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commonwealth Utilities Corp. crewmembers fix the power line along Chalan Pale Arnold in Tanapag yesterday afternoon. A tractor-trailer with a 40-footer container of Best Sunshine accidentally dragged a Docomo cable wire, causing a telephone pole to fall and triggering a power outage in the area. (Ferdie de la Torre)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A tractor-trailer with a 40-foot container of Best Sunshine accidentally dragged a Docomo Pacific cable wire along Chalan Pale Arnold Road and toppled a telephone pole yesterday afternoon, triggering a power outage in Tanapag. <\/p>\n<p>The dangling wire blocked the entire four-lane highway in front of the Pacific Marina Commercial Center. No one was reported injured in the accident that happened at about 4pm, Saipan Tribune learned from witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>When Saipan Tribune left the scene at 5pm, a Commonwealth Utilities Corp. bucket truck had just started to fix the affected power line.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said the tractor-trailer was traveling south when the container\u2019s top snagged the Docomo cable, dragging it and causing the telephone pole to fall. As a result, a CUC hypertension wire was cut, triggering a power outage in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The driver stopped the trailer just near the toppled pole. A second trailer with a container stopped a few meters away from the dangling cable.<\/p>\n<p>A Department of Public Works employee said the trailer with the container that caused the accident is about 14 and a half feet tall.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear whether the cable was too low or the container was just too high.<\/p>\n<p>Police re-routed traffic to the Tanapag area.<\/p>\n<p>Police and CUC are still investigating the accident.<\/p>\n<p>A DPW staff said a vehicular accident near the area also caused a power outage last Wednesday night. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tractor-trailer with a 40-foot container of Best Sunshine accidentally dragged a Docomo Pacific cable&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":255401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[988,49,50,1882],"class_list":["post-255400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-best-sunshine","tag-cuc","tag-power","tag-public-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}