{"id":24127,"date":"2012-05-08T05:34:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T10:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=24127"},"modified":"2012-05-09T06:34:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T11:34:13","slug":"retiring-fire-captain-roger-wurst-honored-for-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/05\/08\/retiring-fire-captain-roger-wurst-honored-for-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Retiring fire captain honored for service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24128\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24128\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Roger-Wurst-retirement-reception-5-7-12.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24128 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Roger-Wurst-retirement-reception-5-7-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retiring Van Wert Fire Captain Roger Wurst (left) receives a plaque from the firefighters union from Craig King, his replacement as fire captain. (Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After nearly three decades of fighting fires and treating victims, Fire Captain Roger Wurst was honored during a retirement reception held Monday afternoon in Van Wert City Council Chambers.<\/p>\n<p>Wurst, a Delphos resident who was formerly a medic and firefighter for that city\u2019s fire department before coming to Van Wert, received his \u201clid\u201d (helmet) from Fire Chief Jim Steele, who also stated his opinion that being a fire captain was the best job in the department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCaptains have the best job in the fire service, no doubt, bar none,\u201d Chief Steele said. \u201cThey have the most responsibility, but it\u2019s one of the best jobs to ever have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fire chief also presented Wurst with the traditional gold watch that goes with retirement from the fire department, and also thanked the retiring captain for his faithful service, noting that Wurst rarely used sick time.<\/p>\n<p>Wurst\u2019s replacement as fire captain, Craig King, also presented his former captain with a plaque from the firefighters union in honor of his retirement. King, who was Wurst\u2019s lieutenant, was recently promoted to captain, while firefighter David Cummings was moved into King\u2019s old job as fire lieutenant.<\/p>\n<p>The retiring fire captain joked that he didn\u2019t know why retirees were always given a watch, because \u201cI don\u2019t care what time it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->He also had fond words for his fellow firefighters, especially those who served on the shift he supervised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re just like trained thoroughbreds,\u201d Wurst said of his shift of firefighters. \u201cKeep the reins and let \u2018em go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wurst joined the Van Wert Fire Department on April 9, 1984, under then-Fire Chief Ron Rank. He served as a firefighter for seven years prior to his appointment as a lieutenant in October 1991. He was promoted to captain on September 12, 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor After nearly three decades of fighting fires and treating victims, Fire Captain Roger Wurst was honored during a retirement reception held Monday afternoon in Van Wert City Council Chambers. Wurst, a Delphos resident who was formerly a medic and firefighter for that city\u2019s fire department before coming to Van Wert, received his [&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-24127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 00:41:21","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\/24127","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=24127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}