{"id":197078,"date":"2025-09-14T11:22:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T16:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=197078"},"modified":"2025-09-14T11:22:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T16:22:41","slug":"downtown-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/09\/14\/downtown-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown fire&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sept-13-2025-fire-II.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-197080\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert Fire Department was summoned to the 100 block of W. Main St. in downtown Van Wert early this morning after a blaze broke out in one of the buildings. Mutual aid was provided by Ohio City, Convoy and Middle Point. Check back later for more information. <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=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sept-14-2025-fire.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-197079\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\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\/09\/Sept-14-2025-fire-III.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-197081\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Van Wert Fire Department was summoned to the 100 block of W. Main St. in downtown Van Wert early this morning after a blaze broke out in one of the buildings. Mutual aid was provided by Ohio City, Convoy and Middle Point. Check back later for more information. Bob Barnes\/VWFD photographer<\/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-197078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-21 23:18:50","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\/197078","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=197078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197082,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197078\/revisions\/197082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}