{"id":211211,"date":"2026-10-14T20:38:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T01:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=211211"},"modified":"2026-10-14T20:38:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T01:38:31","slug":"fire-dept-to-push-in-new-fire-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/10\/14\/fire-dept-to-push-in-new-fire-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Dept. to &#8220;push-in&#8221; new fire engine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A longstanding fire service tradition \u2013 one that dates back to the days of horse-drawn apparatus \u2013 will be held in Van Wert later this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert Fire Department will hold a push-in ceremony for the department\u2019s new fire truck, Engine 3, at 11 a.m. Monday, October 26, at the fire department. The community is welcome to attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in the day, firefighters pushed their equipment back into the station by hand. Now, a push-in ceremony offers an opportunity to welcome our the department\u2019s new fire engine and celebrate with the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff A longstanding fire service tradition \u2013 one that dates back to the days of horse-drawn apparatus \u2013 will be held in Van Wert later this month. The Van Wert Fire Department will hold a push-in ceremony for the department\u2019s new fire truck, Engine 3, at 11 a.m. Monday, October 26, at the [&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-211211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-22 16:04:16","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\/211211","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=211211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211212,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211211\/revisions\/211212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}