{"id":104664,"date":"2018-07-12T17:17:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T22:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=104664"},"modified":"2018-07-12T17:17:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T22:17:46","slug":"family-needs-help-following-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/07\/12\/family-needs-help-following-house-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Family needs help following house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Local emergency response officials are seeking donations for a Van Wert family that lost everything in a house fire that occurred Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_104665\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104665\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-104665\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/South-Franklin-house-fire-7-9-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-104665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>A family that lived in this fire-damaged house on South Franklin Street is in need of assistance, according to the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT).<\/strong> <em>photo submitted<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At 1:15 Tuesday morning, the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) was dispatched by Van Wert Fire Department to a house fire on South Franklin Street.<\/p>\n<p>A couple, expecting their first child, lost everything in the fire. The CERT partnered with The Salvation Army, United Way, and Walmart to get the fire victims immediate assistance. A follow-up meeting with the family determined that the following items are still needed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Men\u2019s clothing &#8212; Pants size 34 x 34, shirt size M\/L, and shoe size 10\u00bd<\/li>\n<li>Women\u2019s clothing &#8212; Shorts size (M), shirt size M, and shoe size 7<\/li>\n<li>Bedding for a full-size bed is also needed.<\/li>\n<li>Walmart gift cards for personal and hygiene items and fuel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Clothing donations for the family need to be taken to The Salvation Army Thrift Store on South Washington Street and labeled as &#8220;Webster&#8221; family donations.<\/p>\n<p>Monetary donations will be accepted at The Van Wert County Foundation made out to Van Wert County Foundation\/CERT, with &#8220;Webster&#8221; in the memo line.<\/p>\n<p>Donations will be collected until Friday, July 20. CERT and Salvation Army will deliver items and donations to the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information Local emergency response officials are seeking donations for a Van Wert family that lost everything in a house fire that occurred Tuesday morning. At 1:15 Tuesday morning, the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) was dispatched by Van Wert Fire Department to a house fire on South Franklin Street. A couple, expecting their [&hellip;]<\/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-104664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 14:38:07","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\/104664","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=104664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}