{"id":207814,"date":"2026-07-13T22:15:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=207814"},"modified":"2026-07-13T22:15:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:15:39","slug":"firefighters-battle-blaze-at-lincoln-highway-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/07\/13\/firefighters-battle-blaze-at-lincoln-highway-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters battle blaze at Lincoln Highway house"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"351\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/July-13-2026-fire-I.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-207815\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Firefighters from four different departments were called on to battle this blaze at a home on Lincoln Highway. <em>Bob Barnes\/VWFD photographer<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firefighters from multiple departments were summoned to battle a late Monday afternoon house fire along Lincoln Highway, east of the Van Wert city limits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Middle Point Fire Department was dispatched to the scene in the 15000 block of Lincoln Highway approximately 4:35 p.m. According to Chief Brock Profit, heavy fire was showing on the backside of the brick home. Middle Point responded with 12 personnel and four pieces of apparatus and brought the blaze under control in 28 minutes. Profit said damage was contained to the backside kitchen area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Delphos Fire and Rescue, the Grover Hill Fire Department and Van Wert Fire Department supplied tankers and Van Wert and Scott Fire and EMS&nbsp; were later called for additional manpower. Van Wert County CERT provided rehab service and traffic control. Profit thanked Collins Fine Foods for staying late and providing food for all first responders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert County deputies were also at the scene, which was cleared three and a half hours after the call came in.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No injuries were reported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor Firefighters from multiple departments were summoned to battle a late Monday afternoon house fire along Lincoln Highway, east of the Van Wert city limits. The Middle Point Fire Department was dispatched to the scene in the 15000 block of Lincoln Highway approximately 4:35 p.m. According to Chief Brock Profit, heavy fire was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-topstory"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-21 05:33:12","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\/207814","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=207814"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207829,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207814\/revisions\/207829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}