{"id":106326,"date":"2018-08-27T07:08:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T12:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=106326"},"modified":"2018-08-30T10:06:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T15:06:44","slug":"cert-seeks-help-for-house-fire-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/08\/27\/cert-seeks-help-for-house-fire-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"CERT seeks help for house fire victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert County Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) is coordinating assistance for a local family that lost everything in a house fire on Richey Road last week. The team has met with the family, which includes a mother and three children, and the following assistance is needed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Woman \u2013 shirt and pant sizes, medium; shoe size 6 or 6\u00bd<\/li>\n<li>Boy age 18 \u2013 shirt and shorts, men\u2019s large; underclothing, men\u2019s large; socks, men\u2019s 9-12; shoes, men\u2019s size 11\u00bd<\/li>\n<li>Boy, age 14 \u2013 Shirt and shorts, men\u2019s size medium; underclothing, men\u2019s size large; socks, men\u2019s 9-12; shoes, men\u2019s size 8\u00bd<\/li>\n<li>Boy, age 9 \u2013 shirt, youth medium to large; shorts, youth 10-12; underclothing, youth medium to large; socks, youth 1-5; and shoes, kids 4.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_106243\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106243\" style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Richey-Road-house-fire2-8-23-18.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-106243 size-full\" height=\"318\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>The Van Wert County Community Emergency Response Team is seeking assistance for four members of a family who lost everything in a house fire on Richey Road (above) this past week.<\/strong> <em>photo provided<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With cold weather just around the corner, donations of cold weather clothing is also appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Clothing and other material items should be delivered to The Salvation Army Thrift Store on South Washington Street in Van Wert.<\/p>\n<p>Monetary donations need to be sent or dropped off at The Van Wert County Foundation, 138 E. Main St. in Van Wert. Monetary donations should be identified as being for the Army family. CERT members will collect donations and arrange delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Donations will be collected by The Salvation Army and Van Wert County Foundation until Friday, September 7.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call the Van Wert EMA office at 419.238.1300.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert County CERT is a United Way sponsored organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information The Van Wert County Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) is coordinating assistance for a local family that lost everything in a house fire on Richey Road last week. The team has met with the family, which includes a mother and three children, and the following assistance is needed: Woman \u2013 shirt and [&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-106326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 13:06:32","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\/106326","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=106326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}