{"id":934,"date":"2025-10-14T07:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T07:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/934\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T07:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T07:33:09","slug":"tracking-downed-power-lines-in-throgs-neck-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/934\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking downed power lines in Throgs Neck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents told News 12 they heard two separate explosions before the power went out.<\/p>\n<p>One woman said she woke up to the smell of smoke and the sound of firetruck.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It started at 7 a.m. When I was looking out my window, the tree and the branches were on fire. It was hitting against the electrical wires,&#8221; one woman said. <\/p>\n<p>Then, two hours later, she said the electrical pole outside her home exploded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We heard a boom. This thing blew up,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The outages reportedly began at 9 a.m., beginning at the intersection of Lawton Avenue and Calhoun Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>News 12 cameras captured downed wires everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Con Edison crews were quickly on scene to assess the source of the outage and make repairs.<\/p>\n<p>Full power was restored to the Throgs Neck neighborhood by 4 p.m. on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents told News 12 they heard two separate explosions before the power went out. One woman said she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,344,345,122,124,123,346],"class_list":{"0":"post-934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-power-outage","12":"tag-power-outages","13":"tag-queens","14":"tag-queens-headlines","15":"tag-queens-news","16":"tag-throgs-neck"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}