{"id":24742,"date":"2025-03-14T12:37:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T16:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=24742"},"modified":"2025-03-14T12:37:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T16:37:36","slug":"last-fire-pacts-for-25-are-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/last-fire-pacts-for-25-are-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"Last fire pacts for &#8217;25 are approved"},"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 completed its approval of fire contracts for 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At its latest meeting, the board of works and safety approved contracts with St. Marys and Union townships. St. Marys pays $11,934.23 for fire coverage while Union pays $10,608.25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contracts with Root ($25,124.48) and Washington ($18,564.36) townships were approved earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The city has mutual aid pacts with Preble and Monroe townships, each of which has a volunteer fire department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LOSING TWO: Decatur&#8217;s fire department has lost two members of its volunteer, or paid on-call, force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Justin Weil and Darrell Drake recently resigned and their resignations were approved by the board of works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TWO OTHERS: Meanwhile, two City of Decatur employees have moved on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The resignations of Paul Scheumann and Greg Peterson also were approved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peterson left for a job with a chemical company in Fort Wayne, the board noted, while Scheumann vacated his job with the water department for a position with the Fort Wayne Fire Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ONE ADDED: The utilities department has hired Paul Faurote to fill a meter reader position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com The City of Decatur has completed its approval of fire contracts for 2025. At<\/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-24742","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\/24742","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=24742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24743,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24742\/revisions\/24743"}],"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=24742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}