{"id":197272,"date":"2025-09-18T20:52:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T01:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=197272"},"modified":"2025-09-18T20:52:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T01:52:42","slug":"fd-receives-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/09\/18\/fd-receives-donation\/","title":{"rendered":"FD receives donation&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Fire-department-donation.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-197273\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert Fire Department recently received a $3,840 donation from Farm Credit Mid-America to purchase rope rescue equipment. This gear will enhance the department\u2019s ability to respond to grain bin rescues, emergencies where trapped individuals can quickly become engulfed in grain and require specialized tools and training to free safely.\u201cWe are grateful for Farm Credit Mid-America\u2019s support,\u201d said Fire Chief Jon Jones said the department is grateful for Farm Credit Mid-America\u2019s support and said the donation strengthens the departament\u2019s ability to protect lives within the farming community. <em>Photo submitted<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Van Wert Fire Department recently received a $3,840 donation from Farm Credit Mid-America to purchase rope rescue equipment. This gear will enhance the department\u2019s ability to respond to grain bin rescues, emergencies where trapped individuals can quickly become engulfed in grain and require specialized tools and training to free safely.\u201cWe are grateful for Farm [&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-197272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 14:49:33","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\/197272","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=197272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197313,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197272\/revisions\/197313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}