{"id":190859,"date":"2025-03-18T20:57:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T01:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=190859"},"modified":"2025-03-18T20:57:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T01:57:31","slug":"annual-inspection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/03\/18\/annual-inspection\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual inspection&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ladder-truck-inspection-3-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190860\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert Fire Department&#8217;s ladder truck L2 underwent its annual inspection on Tuesday. The inspection was conducted by EVP Emergency Vehicles Products based in Kalamazoo, Michigan.\u00a0\u00a0Field engineer Brett Burger, assisted by Van Wert firefighter Brett Schumm, conducted the required annual testing procedures.\u00a0Some of the tests performed were looking for structural defects in the vehicles, hydraulic testing of the ladder unit, and the pumps on the unit making sure they were within the manufacturer\u2019s specifications.\u00a0<em>Bob Barnes\/VWFD photographer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ladder-truck-inspection-II-3-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190861\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Van Wert Fire Department&#8217;s ladder truck L2 underwent its annual inspection on Tuesday. The inspection was conducted by EVP Emergency Vehicles Products based in Kalamazoo, Michigan.\u00a0\u00a0Field engineer Brett Burger, assisted by Van Wert firefighter Brett Schumm, conducted the required annual testing procedures.\u00a0Some of the tests performed were looking for structural defects in the vehicles, [&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-190859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 17:25:28","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\/190859","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=190859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190863,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190859\/revisions\/190863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}