{"id":54395,"date":"2014-08-09T08:17:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T13:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=54395"},"modified":"2014-08-09T08:17:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T13:17:35","slug":"reserve-city-firefighter-mike-grew-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2014\/08\/09\/reserve-city-firefighter-mike-grew-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Reserve city firefighter Mike Grew retires"},"content":{"rendered":"

Van Wert Fire Dept. information<\/i><\/p>\n

The Van Wert Fire Department recently celebrated the retirement of Firefighter Mike E. Grew, who left the service of the department on January 24 as the longest serving reserve firefighter in the modern history of the department.<\/p>\n

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Reserve Van Wert Firefighter Mike Grew (right) and Van Wert Fire Chief Jim Steele pose during a retirement reception for Grew. (photo submitted)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Grew was hired by former Fire Chief Ron Rank on January 1, 1989.\u00a0 He attained certifications as a volunteer firefighter in 1989, EMT in 1989, Firefighter 1 in 1998, and had received additional training in the Incident Management System.<\/p>\n

Grew is a 25-year employee Central Mutual Insurance, where he continues to work as a senior maintenance technician.<\/p>\n

Van Wert Fire Chief Jim Steele said Mike was a Thursday night regular at the department, consistently doing his ride time on that day from 6 to 10 p.m.\u00a0 During a watch presentation Chief Steele discussed how Grew consistently displayed the core values of service above self to the department and the city.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was clear he loved what he did and would do anything asked of him to assist in the functions of the department,\u201d Chief Steele noted. \u201cMike truly enjoyed working behind the scenes; however, he decided that it was time to step back. We will miss him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grew is married to his wife, Jane, of 35 years, and has three grown children: Scott, Brent and Cory.\u00a0 He resides in Ridge Township.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Van Wert Fire Dept. information The Van Wert Fire Department recently celebrated the retirement of Firefighter Mike E. Grew, who left the service of the department on January 24 as the longest serving reserve firefighter in the modern history of the department. Grew was hired by former Fire Chief Ron Rank on January 1, 1989.\u00a0 […]<\/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-54395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 23:30:49","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\/54395","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=54395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}