{"id":34196,"date":"2026-02-21T08:16:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=34196"},"modified":"2026-02-21T08:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:20:00","slug":"jacob-baumann-joins-decatur-fds-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/jacob-baumann-joins-decatur-fds-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Baumann joins Decatur FD&#8217;s force"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest addition to Decatur&#8217;s firefighting force grew up in a family deeply rooted in the service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jacob Baumann has been added to the Decatur Fire Department&#8217;s paid-on-call force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His appointment, approved by the city&#8217;s board of works and safety on Tuesday, brings the paid-on-call force back to full strength: 25 firefighters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An opening was created when Jeremy Jones recently moved up from the paid-on-call staff to a full-time position with the department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baumann, a 2019 Bellmont High School graduate, is the son of Mitch and Angie Baumann.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jacob&#8217;s great-grandfather, Ernie Baumann, and his grandfather, Sam Baumann, were both firefighters, as is his father, Mitch, currently a captain with the department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jacob, a employee of American Composites and Tooling, has been a member of the Preble Volunteer Fire Department for a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this month, Jones and Lucas Juengel joined the department&#8217;s full-time (career) force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They bring the department to eight career firefighters, one short of a full complement, along with Chief Jeff Sheets and Assistant Chief Chad Baumann.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com The latest addition to Decatur&#8217;s firefighting force grew up in a family deeply rooted in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-34196","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\/34196","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34197,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34196\/revisions\/34197"}],"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=34196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}