{"id":18330,"date":"2024-08-11T16:09:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T20:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=18330"},"modified":"2024-08-11T16:09:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T20:09:31","slug":"decatur-fd-continues-testing-of-applicants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/11\/decatur-fd-continues-testing-of-applicants\/","title":{"rendered":"Decatur FD continues testing of applicants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The process of adding a new full-time firefighter to the Decatur department is moving along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fire Chief Jeff Sheets told city council at its recent meeting that a group of 10 applicants for the position has been winnowed down to seven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo now we&#8217;ll be starting our second round\u201d of testing, Sheets said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/EE089C9A9C5C4F2DBD52366AC00DA4CC.jpg?resize=640%2C304&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/EE089C9A9C5C4F2DBD52366AC00DA4CC.jpg?w=673&amp;ssl=1 673w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/EE089C9A9C5C4F2DBD52366AC00DA4CC.jpg?resize=300%2C143&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The person eventually chosen will still have to pass a battery of physical and psychological testing by the state before joining the local department on a probationary status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A full-time firefighter will be the department&#8217;s 10<sup>th<\/sup>, bringing it up to full capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The department currently has a full staff of 25 paid-on-call volunteers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com The process of adding a new full-time firefighter to the Decatur department is moving<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,15,21],"class_list":["post-18330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}