{"id":15215059,"date":"2026-07-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/people-in-several-hamilton-neighbourhoods-still-dont-know-why-black-soot-has-been-falling-on-their-homes\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T08:33:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:33:48","slug":"people-in-several-hamilton-neighbourhoods-still-dont-know-why-black-soot-has-been-falling-on-their-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/people-in-several-hamilton-neighbourhoods-still-dont-know-why-black-soot-has-been-falling-on-their-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"People in several Hamilton neighbourhoods still don&#039;t know why black soot has been falling on their homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/f34a156d-a7dc-4d8a-83f6-9fc89e8fc169,1784324134521\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C645%2C1080%2C607%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29\" alt=\"A set of hands holds a wet wipe with a black handprint\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>People living in and around Hamilton&#8217;s east end say their homes have been covered in black soot this week. Soot is not a new concern for people in the area, but Ward 4 councillor Tammy Hwang says this time is different, with people further away being affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/play\/9.7274825?cmp=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">News &#8211; Canada &#8211; Hamilton &#8211; cbc-ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People living in and around Hamilton&#8217;s east end say their homes have been covered in black soot this week. Soot is not a new concern for people in the area, but Ward 4 councillor Tammy Hwang says this time is\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15215061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[405],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15215059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hamilton"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15215059-default.avif",620,348,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15215059-default-300x168.avif",300,168,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15215059-default.avif",620,348,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15215059-default.avif",620,348,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15215059-default.avif",620,348,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15215059-default.avif",620,348,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15215059-default.avif",620,348,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15215059-default.avif",620,348,false],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15215059-default.avif",620,348,false],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15215059-default.avif",620,348,false],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15215059-default-510x348.avif",510,348,true],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15215059-default-160x160.avif",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15215059-default-24x24.avif",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15215059-default-48x48.avif",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15215059-default-96x96.avif",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15215059-default-150x150.avif",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15215059-default-300x300.avif",300,300,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/articles\/news\/canada\/hamilton\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Hamilton<\/a>","tag_info":"Hamilton","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15215059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15215059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15215059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15215060,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15215059\/revisions\/15215060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15215061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15215059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15215059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15215059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}