{"id":163594,"date":"2023-03-01T13:57:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T18:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=163594"},"modified":"2023-03-01T13:57:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T18:57:16","slug":"rockford-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/03\/01\/rockford-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockford fire&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Rockford-fire-II-3-1-2023.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163595\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Fire departments from Mercer and Van Wert counties spent the early Wednesday morning hours battling a fire that caused substantial damages to multiple businesses in downtown Rockford. The fire is believed to have started at approximately 2 a.m. and the Rockford and Ohio City fire departments were the first to respond. Mutual aid was requested at around 4 a.m. as the fire spread. Most fire departments from Mercer County were at the scene, along with Van Wert and Wren. No injuries were reported. Check back later for more information. <em>Bob Barnes\/VWFD photographer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Rockford-fire-I-3-1-2023.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163596\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire departments from Mercer and Van Wert counties spent the early Wednesday morning hours battling a fire that caused substantial damages to multiple businesses in downtown Rockford. The fire is believed to have started at approximately 2 a.m. and the Rockford and Ohio City fire departments were the first to respond. Mutual aid was requested [&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-163594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-05 07:08:25","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\/163594","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=163594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163597,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163594\/revisions\/163597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}