{"id":189493,"date":"2025-02-11T21:24:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T02:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=189493"},"modified":"2025-02-11T21:24:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T02:24:41","slug":"fire-dept-awards-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/02\/11\/fire-dept-awards-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Dept. awards&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"548\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/VWFD-awards-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-189494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/VWFD-awards-2025.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/VWFD-awards-2025-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Various awards were presented during the Van Wert Fire Deparment\u2019s annual banquet. Clockwise from top left: Ed Carter, Chief Jon Jones and Brock Profit, dependability awards; Brett Schumm, 5-year service award; Ethan Fraker, training award and 5-year service award, and Zach Merkle, 10-year service award. <em>Bob Barnes photos<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various awards were presented during the Van Wert Fire Deparment\u2019s annual banquet. Clockwise from top left: Ed Carter, Chief Jon Jones and Brock Profit, dependability awards; Brett Schumm, 5-year service award; Ethan Fraker, training award and 5-year service award, and Zach Merkle, 10-year service award. Bob Barnes photos<\/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-189493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 03:18:14","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\/189493","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=189493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189495,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189493\/revisions\/189495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}