{"id":89120,"date":"2017-06-14T22:45:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T03:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=89120"},"modified":"2017-06-16T08:21:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T13:21:22","slug":"disaster-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/06\/14\/disaster-drill\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaster drill&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-89121\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/EMA-exercise-6-14-17-De-con-suits.jpg\" alt=\"EMA exercise 6-14-17-De-con suits\" width=\"545\" height=\"372\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Van Wert County Emergency Management Agency, as well as partner agencies, such as the Van Wert County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, Van Wert Police and Fire departments, Van Wert County Hospital, local American Red Cross chapter, practiced what to do in a hazmat emergency Wednesday at the local Eaton Corporation plant. The &#8220;live&#8221; exercise, as opposed to a tabletop drill, involved a hazmat scenario of leaking hydrochloric acid from a tanker truck. Above, first-responders in hazmat suits respond, while (below) a &#8220;victim&#8221; (actually a member of the local Civil Air Patrol unit), is placed in an EMS ambulance for transport to the hospital.<\/strong> <em>photos by Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-89122\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/EMA-exercise-6-14-17-Victim-transported.jpg\" alt=\"EMA exercise 6-14-17-Victim transported\" width=\"545\" height=\"348\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Van Wert County Emergency Management Agency, as well as partner agencies, such as the Van Wert County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, Van Wert Police and Fire departments, Van Wert County Hospital, local American Red Cross chapter, practiced what to do in a hazmat emergency Wednesday at the local Eaton Corporation plant. The &#8220;live&#8221; exercise, as opposed [&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-89120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 17:35:59","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\/89120","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=89120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}