{"id":20464,"date":"2024-10-07T15:07:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T19:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=20464"},"modified":"2024-10-07T15:07:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T19:07:44","slug":"decatur-fire-dept-open-house-set-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/07\/decatur-fire-dept-open-house-set-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Decatur Fire Dept. Open House set Wednesday"},"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 Decatur Fire Department is \u201cgoing to do something a little different\u201d at its annual Open House scheduled for this week, Chief Jeff Sheets said at a recent city council meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An oversized doll house will be burned to show how a fire can develop and how to be protected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event will be held 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the city fire station, 206 S. Seventh St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visitors will be able to get a close-up look at the fire trucks, various equipment and talk to firefighters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weather permitting, Lutheran Air&#8217;s helicopter will land around 6:30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KEY DATES: Some other key dates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* The Decatur Water Department will test fire hydrants and clean water mains October 7-9 and October 15 &#8211; 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents may find the daily schedules on the City of Decatur Facebook page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To reduce the risk of possible damage to laundry items, the water department recommends that residents should conduct all laundry after 5 p.m. on those dates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Leaf collection will begin soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this week&#8217;s completion of yard waste collections, city employees will begin gearing up various machinery for the leaf pickups to begin soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Decatur police will be doing a \u201cnight shoot\u201d at the range off E. Monroe St. Extended on Tuesday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com The Decatur Fire Department is \u201cgoing to do something a little different\u201d at its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320,"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-20464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/photoless-header-template-news.jpg?fit=252%2C144&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20464","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=20464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20465,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20464\/revisions\/20465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}