{"id":30524,"date":"2025-11-05T07:34:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=30524"},"modified":"2025-11-05T07:34:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:34:51","slug":"decatur-fd-promotes-fullenkamp-2-openings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/05\/decatur-fd-promotes-fullenkamp-2-openings\/","title":{"rendered":"Decatur FD promotes Fullenkamp; 2 openings"},"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 firefighter Heath Fullenkamp has been promoted to the position of training captain within the department, Fire Chief Jeff Sheets has announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fullenkamp has been serving as interim training captain since the departure of Taylor Gage a few months ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheets said Fullenkamp was the only member of the department who applied for the position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"251\" height=\"156\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/unnamed-1.jpg?resize=251%2C156&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30525\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Clerk-Treasurer Eran Hackman administers oath of office to Heath Fullenkamp.<br><br><br><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fullenkamp joined the Decatur department as a full-time firefighter in 2016 after serving with the Preble volunteer department from 2009-2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is a 2006 graduate of Bellmont High School and in 2009 received his Associate Degree in fire science from Ivy Tech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heath and his wife, Katie, are the parents of two sons: Bentley, 8, and Brody, 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TRIMMING: Chief Sheets said at Tuesday night&#8217;s city council meeting that the department was down to six applicants seeking two full-time positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The field would soon be cut to four, then some area fire chiefs would look at qualifications and talk with the four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three department full-timers resigned in August, cutting the number of regulars by one-third, from nine to six.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preston Bemis was added to the ranks Sept. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At full force, the Decatur FD has nine career firefighters, Deputy Chief Chad Baumann, and Chief Sheets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com Decatur firefighter Heath Fullenkamp has been promoted to the position of training captain within<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30525,"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-30524","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\/2025\/11\/unnamed-1.jpg?fit=251%2C156&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30524","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=30524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30526,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30524\/revisions\/30526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}