{"id":24409,"date":"2025-02-26T12:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T17:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=24409"},"modified":"2025-02-26T12:15:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T17:15:19","slug":"burn-ban-violation-okayed-for-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/burn-ban-violation-okayed-for-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Burn ban violation okayed for safety"},"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>Decatur has an open burning ban, but the city&#8217;s board of works and safety recently gave permission to violate that ban \u2013 to the fire department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The department is planning to update a fire-safety video it has had since the late 1970s. The video is shown to elementary students during the department&#8217;s presentations at the Survive Alive House at Worthman Field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Survive-Alive-House-1.jpg?resize=640%2C479&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Survive-Alive-House-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C767&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Survive-Alive-House-1.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Survive-Alive-House-1.jpg?resize=768%2C575&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Survive-Alive-House-1.jpg?resize=1536%2C1150&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Survive-Alive-House-1.jpg?w=1855&amp;ssl=1 1855w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Survive-Alive-House-1.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The program gives youngsters fire-safety tips that they can incorporate in their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fire department is receiving major assistance from Champion Homes in Decatur. And, Fire Chief Jeff Sheets told the board, the media arts class at Huntington University has expressed a keen interest in producing the video update.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"539\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Champion-Homes-sign.jpg?resize=640%2C539&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Champion-Homes-sign.jpg?w=840&amp;ssl=1 840w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Champion-Homes-sign.jpg?resize=300%2C253&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Champion-Homes-sign.jpg?resize=768%2C647&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheets told WZBD.com that Champion will build outside on its S. 13th St. property a pair of 10-foot by 10-foot square boxes. One will be the mock-up of a kitchen, the other a family room mock-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The kitchen will have a grease fire and the new video will demonstrate multiple ways to douse the fire, such as using a lid, baking soda, a fire extinguisher, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The family room video will show how fast a fire can spread, Sheets explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No date has been set for the exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com Decatur has an open burning ban, but the city&#8217;s board of works and safety<\/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-24409","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\/24409","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=24409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24412,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24409\/revisions\/24412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}