{"id":174942,"date":"2024-01-22T04:47:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T09:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=174942"},"modified":"2024-01-23T04:44:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T09:44:56","slug":"local-fire-department-responds-to-two-smoke-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/01\/22\/local-fire-department-responds-to-two-smoke-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"VWFD responds to two weekend smoke calls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert Fire Department was dispatched to a pair of weekend calls but fortunately, both turned out to be scares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both calls were from locations just minutes from the fire station. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first call came in for a possible structure fire at a home in the 600 block of E. Crawford St., near Race St., at 1:10 p.m. Saturday. <\/p>\n\n\n\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\/2024\/01\/W.-Crawford-St.-smoke-1-21-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-174950\"\/><figcaption>Firefighters were dispatched to E. Crawford St. on Saturday. <em>Bob Barnes\/VWFD photographer<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Captain David Cummings, the two units arrived at the scene within four minutes and found smoke coming from the front porch area. The culprit was a smoldering trash can in the enclosed porch area and it was brought under control within several minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three people were in the home at the time and got out safely. Damage was very light and according to Cummings, the fire department cleared the scene shortly before 2 p.m. The Van Wert Police Department provided traffic control around the fire scene. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other call came in at approximately 8:30 a.m. Sunday to a residence in the 800 block of E. Main St. Firefighters arrived to find a small amount of smoke but no flames. Cummings said the smoke was likely caused by a faulty furnace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor The Van Wert Fire Department was dispatched to a pair of weekend calls but fortunately, both turned out to be scares. Both calls were from locations just minutes from the fire station. The first call came in for a possible structure fire at a home in the 600 block of E. Crawford [&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-174942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 13:38:16","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\/174942","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=174942"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175030,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174942\/revisions\/175030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}