{"id":110614,"date":"2018-12-15T00:29:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T05:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=110614"},"modified":"2018-12-15T00:32:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T05:32:46","slug":"fire-lieutenant-completes-officer-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/12\/15\/fire-lieutenant-completes-officer-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire lieutenant completes officer course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_110615\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110615\" style=\"width: 125px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-110615\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/VWFD-Lt.-Brian-Ankney-headshot-12-2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"189\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-110615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Brian Ankney<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Van Wert Fire Lieutenant\/Paramedic Brian Ankney recently completed the Bowling Green State University Fire Officer 2 (FO2) class.<\/p>\n<p>The course is for fire officers in leadership roles for their departments and is designed to meet or exceed NFPA 1021, Standards of Professional Qualifications for Fire Officer II.<\/p>\n<p>The course expands on management techniques learned in Fire Officer I and focuses on public education and community relations, budget preparation and requests, legal responsibilities, time management, handling conflicts in the fire service, dealing with various media agencies, crew resource management, and emergency operations management.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompleting the FO2 class is the second step for personnel interested in furthering their professional fire officer career,\u201d said Van Wert Fire Chief Jon Jones. \u201cTheir participation in this class shows dedication and commitment as future leaders for our department and community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information Van Wert Fire Lieutenant\/Paramedic Brian Ankney recently completed the Bowling Green State University Fire Officer 2 (FO2) class. The course is for fire officers in leadership roles for their departments and is designed to meet or exceed NFPA 1021, Standards of Professional Qualifications for Fire Officer II. The course expands on management [&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-110614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 15:14:52","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\/110614","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=110614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}