{"id":14691,"date":"2022-08-04T20:28:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T20:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/power-outage-prompts-evacuation-of-dekalb-courthouse-wsb-tv-channel-2\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T20:28:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T20:28:49","slug":"power-outage-prompts-evacuation-of-dekalb-courthouse-wsb-tv-channel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=14691","title":{"rendered":"Power outage prompts evacuation of DeKalb courthouse &#8211; WSB-TV Channel 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 dowhnV body-paragraph\">DEKALB COUNTY, Ga.  \u2014 Channel 2 Action News has learned a power outage in Decatur caused officials to evacuate the courthouse. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 dowhnV body-paragraph\">The outage occurred around 2 p.m<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 dowhnV body-paragraph\">DeKalb County Superior Court Clerk Debra DeBerry tweeted an evacuation alert Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 Alert: The DeKalb County Courthouse is currently being evacuated.  Stay away from the area until further notice. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FQAbHAGUIN\">pic.twitter.com\/FQAbHAGUIN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DeKalb County Clerk (@DKSuperiorClerk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DKSuperiorClerk\/status\/1555257265342513153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 dowhnV body-paragraph\">&#8220;All courts were closed and judges were escorted from the facility. Inmates who were there for the hearings have been returned to the DeKalb County Jail,&#8221; the county said in an email to Channel 2 Action News.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 dowhnV body-paragraph\">Power was expected to be restored around 3:45 p.m<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 dowhnV body-paragraph\">IN OTHER NEWS:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-1gn0vty-0 gAFIWJ image-metadata\"><span class=\"title\">Sinkhole opens onto a busy road in front of Cobb Elementary School <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 dowhnV body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92022 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/dekalb-county\/dekalb-county-courthouse-ordered-evacuate\/J4X5SONNKJH55BAWMV5YN5JFH4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. \u2014 Channel 2 Action News has learned a power outage in Decatur caused officials to evacuate the courthouse. The outage occurred around 2 p.m DeKalb County Superior Court Clerk Debra DeBerry tweeted an evacuation alert Thursday afternoon. \ud83d\udea8 Alert: The DeKalb County Courthouse is currently being evacuated. Stay away from the area until further notice. pic.twitter.com\/FQAbHAGUIN \u2014 DeKalb County Clerk (@DKSuperiorClerk) August 4, 2022 &#8220;All courts were closed and judges were escorted from the facility. Inmates who were there for the hearings have been returned to the DeKalb County Jail,&#8221; the county said in an email to&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}