{"id":102105,"date":"2018-05-02T09:03:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T14:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=102105"},"modified":"2018-05-02T09:03:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T14:03:20","slug":"vwfd-has-medic-7-pushing-in-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/05\/02\/vwfd-has-medic-7-pushing-in-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"VWFD has Medic 7 ‘pushing in’ ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n

Van Wert Fire Chief Jon Jones is a great believer in tradition, and he has restored some old traditions during his tenure as fire chief, some of them going back to the time when fire engines were horse-drawn.<\/p>\n

Two of those traditions were in play on Tuesday as the department formally dedicated its new Medic 7 EMS unit at the fire station.<\/p>\n

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VWFD Captain Dave Cummings wets down the department’s new EMS unit, Medic 7.<\/strong> photos by Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Following a prayer by Fire Lieutenant Nick Steyer, Captain Dave Cummings began with a \u201cwetting down\u201d ceremony. Traditionally, water from a fire engine being replaced would be sprayed on the new engine. Of course, with the old Medic 7 not being a fire engine, per se, water from another vehicle had to be used.<\/p>\n

Then came the \u201cpushing in\u201d ceremony.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the old days when they got a new fire engine, it was pulled by horses,\u201d Chief Jones explained. The crew and the community would gather together and push it in (the fire station) together, showing the community support for that new fire engine to protect that community.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Van Wert community members weren\u2019t on hand, a number of city employees were, including Mayor Jerry Mazur, Police Chief Joel Hammond and several police officers, and other city workers. They joined with fire personnel to push the Braun-manufactured Medic 7 through a large bay door into the VWFD garage.<\/p>\n

Chief Jones said the EMS unit was the fourth the city has purchased from local ambulance maker Braun Industries, adding that the ambulance, which was to have an effective service life of six years, put in 15 years for the fire department before being taken out of service.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the vehicle will now be used as the police department\u2019s Special Response Team vehicle, replacing an older Braun ambulance now being used for that function. The older Braun ambulance will then be given to the Van Wert County Emergency Management Agency\u2019s Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) for use at fires and other disaster scenes.<\/p>\n

The fire chief had nothing but good things to say about Braun ambulances.<\/p>\n

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Van Wert fire, police, and office staff, as well as Mayor Jerry Mazur and Third Ward Councilman Ken Markward, push Medic 7 into a fire station garage bay.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cBraun makes a good unit, no doubt,\u201d the fire chief said. \u201cThey\u2019re the Cadillac of the ambulance industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chief Jones said the exterior paint job of the new EMS vehicle was designed by a VWFD committee to show community pride. While the other fire vehicles all have the Van Wert High School cougar logo on them, the new Medic 7 not only has a larger cougar emblem, but also includes the scarlet and gray colors of the city schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really wanted to put the community into our fire department,\u201d the fire chief said, adding that the larger cougar head and scarlet-and-gray paint job showed his department was \u201cloud and proud\u201d in support of the community. \u201cIt turned out wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor Van Wert Fire Chief Jon Jones is a great believer in tradition, and he has restored some old traditions during his tenure as fire chief, some of them going back to the time when fire engines were horse-drawn. Two of those traditions were in play on Tuesday as the department formally dedicated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-11 05:54:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}