{"id":22816,"date":"2024-12-27T21:04:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T02:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=22816"},"modified":"2024-12-27T21:04:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T02:04:27","slug":"brown-joins-decaturs-fire-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/27\/brown-joins-decaturs-fire-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown joins Decatur&#8217;s fire department"},"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 City of Decatur has a new firefighter, one who is already in the business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fire Chief Jeff Sheets informed the city&#8217;s board of works and safety at its latest meeting that Dominick Brown has joined the fire department on a full-time basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"627\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Outlook-3h4xztyn.jpg?resize=627%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22817\" style=\"width:195px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Outlook-3h4xztyn.jpg?resize=627%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 627w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Outlook-3h4xztyn.jpg?resize=184%2C300&amp;ssl=1 184w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Outlook-3h4xztyn.jpg?w=709&amp;ssl=1 709w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Brown, a Decatur-area resident, has been a member of the Monroe volunteer Fire Department for the past year and a half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He fills the position vacated last May by Nick Patton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patton had been on the department for 22 months and stepped down to devote more time to his business, Patton Tree Trimming LLC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He remains a member of the PD&#8217;s reserve force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 2011 graduate of Bellmont High School, Brown is a sub-contractor specializing in flooring. He and his wife, Michelle, have four children who are home schooled: Brooklyn, Silas, Jensen and Lincoln.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his free time, the chief said, Brown enjoys hiking, hunting and camping with his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com The City of Decatur has a new firefighter, one who is already in the<\/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":[14,21],"class_list":["post-22816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22816","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=22816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22818,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22816\/revisions\/22818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}