{"id":387996,"date":"2026-07-06T16:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/387996\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T16:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:03:09","slug":"oakland-wawanesa-fire-department-responds-to-multiple-storm-calls-sunday-night-discoverwestman-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/387996\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland\/Wawanesa Fire Department responds to multiple storm calls Sunday night &#8211; DiscoverWestman.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday night Oakland\/Wawanesa Fire Department responded to multiple calls following a severe thunderstorm that moved through the municipality.<\/p>\n<p>According to information posted on social media, crews split into multiple response teams and attended 10 calls within the hour, primarily involving electrical emergencies. \u00a0One of those response areas was a portion of Highway 2 between Provincial Road 340 and Highway 18 due to multiple hydro poles being downed by the storm.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters continued to assess the impact of multiple storms throughout the night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Grant capture this photo of the severe storm south of Wawanesa\" data-caption=\"David Grant capture this photo of the severe storm south of Wawanesa\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"bdb6599e-f645-4f4a-9d12-9a44c7245b0d\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/davd_grant_severe_storm_jul05_2026_4_south_wawanesa.jpg\"\/>David Grant capture this photo of the severe storm south of Wawanesa<\/p>\n<p>Several roadways have sustained damage from overland flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Oakland\/Wawanesa Fire Department, along with the Municipality, are reminding everyone to remain vigilant, use extreme caution around waterways and be alert for washed-out roads and other storm-related hazards.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday night Oakland\/Wawanesa Fire Department responded to multiple calls following a severe thunderstorm that moved through the municipality.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-387996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}