{"id":2767,"date":"2023-05-23T15:08:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T19:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2023-05-23T15:08:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T19:08:23","slug":"hospital-employees-receive-extinguisher-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/23\/hospital-employees-receive-extinguisher-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital employees receive extinguisher training"},"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>Approximately 500 employees of Adams Health Network recently took part in fire extinguisher training provided at Adams Memorial Hospital by the Decatur Fire Department (see photo).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trainees included workers at the hospital, Woodcrest and the Village of Heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The training device provides a live fire to be extinguished. The device is portable and can be taken just about everywhere for training in the use of a fire extinguisher, such as to industries and schools, according to Decatur Fire Chief Jeff Sheets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Referring to the safety of the device, \u201ceverything is controlled by the instructor,\u201d Sheets explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the last time the trainer was used as the department just received a new one it purchased. The old trainer had been repaired numerous times and was no longer repairable, Sheets recently told city officials as he was granted permission to buy a new one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VOLUNTEERS: The department currently is taking applications for Paid-On-Call firefighters. The volunteer staff has long been a part of the Decatur department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Applications can be downloaded from the City of Decatur\u2019s website or picked up at the fire station on Seventh St., Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com Approximately 500 employees of Adams Health Network recently took part in fire extinguisher training<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-2767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-community"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/9240D1B0945B4A0C8A19AD41446FC976.jpg?fit=703%2C558&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767","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=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}