{"id":60276,"date":"2015-01-29T08:28:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T13:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=60276"},"modified":"2015-01-29T08:28:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T13:28:30","slug":"balliet-retires-from-vw-fire-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/01\/29\/balliet-retires-from-vw-fire-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Balliet retires from VW Fire Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Van Wert Fire Dept. information<\/i><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60277\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60277\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/01\/balliet-retires-from-vw-fire-department\/junior-balliet-retirement-1-2015\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60277\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60277 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Van Wert Firefighter\/Paramedic Gerald &quot;Junior&quot; Balliet Jr. with his helmet award and gold watch. (VWFD photo)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Junior-Balliet-retirement-1-2015.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60277\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Van Wert Firefighter\/Paramedic Gerald &#8220;Junior&#8221; Balliet Jr. with his helmet award and gold watch. (VWFD photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Van Wert Fire Chief James M. Steele recently announced the retirement of Firefighter\/Paramedic Gerald C. \u201cJunior\u201d Balliet Jr. from the Van Wert Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighter Balliet was hired on September 5, 1989, and was at the time, and remains today a volunteer firefighter for the Convoy Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>Balliet is a certified Firefighter 2, paramedic, and a fire safety inspector. He was also the water rescue\/boat operator instructor for the department and maintained additional certifications as a hazardous materials technician and confined space rescuer.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighter Balliet officially retired on January 2 with 25.3 years of service. A gathering was held at the Fire Department, where Balliet was presented with a gold watch from the department and a helmet award from the IAFF Local 681 honoring his time in service to the residents of Van Wert.<\/p>\n<p>In attendance were family, friends, and current and retired firefighters from the department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert Fire Dept. information Van Wert Fire Chief James M. Steele recently announced the retirement of Firefighter\/Paramedic Gerald C. \u201cJunior\u201d Balliet Jr. from the Van Wert Fire Department. Firefighter Balliet was hired on September 5, 1989, and was at the time, and remains today a volunteer firefighter for the Convoy Fire Department. Balliet is [&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-60276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 03:02:03","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\/60276","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=60276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}