{"id":77140,"date":"2016-06-13T08:04:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T13:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=77140"},"modified":"2016-06-13T08:18:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T13:18:04","slug":"77140","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/06\/13\/77140\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaster exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Paulding-disaster-exercise-6-2016.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77141\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-77141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Paulding-disaster-exercise-6-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Paulding disaster exercise 6-2016\" width=\"545\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Paulding-disaster-exercise-6-2016.jpg 960w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Paulding-disaster-exercise-6-2016-550x182.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Paulding-disaster-exercise-6-2016-768x254.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Van Wert American Red Cross chapter&#8217;s Disaster Team went to Payne in Paulding County this past weekend to assist that county with its annual disaster exercise. During the exercise, a vehicle reportedly collides with a semi containing hazardous materials. The hazardous materials then leaked into a nearby ditch and affected the local community. \u201cIt\u2019s always fun getting out and practicing with local emergency responders,\u201d said Red Cross Disaster Chairman Mark Klausing. \u201cIt is so important to work with them and get to know each one, so when \u201cThe Big One\u201d (disaster) comes, we are in synch and can react faster to protect our community.\u201d With temperatures in the 90s, water and Gatorade were flowing during the exercise, which also included several state officials.<\/strong> <em>(Red Cross photo)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Van Wert American Red Cross chapter&#8217;s Disaster Team went to Payne in Paulding County this past weekend to assist that county with its annual disaster exercise. During the exercise, a vehicle reportedly collides with a semi containing hazardous materials. The hazardous materials then leaked into a nearby ditch and affected the local community. \u201cIt\u2019s [&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-77140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 09:37:56","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\/77140","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=77140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}