{"id":9807,"date":"2023-11-19T14:20:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T19:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=9807"},"modified":"2023-11-19T14:20:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T19:20:46","slug":"veteran-decatur-firefighter-stepping-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/19\/veteran-decatur-firefighter-stepping-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Decatur firefighter stepping down"},"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>A veteran member of Decatur&#8217;s volunteer firefighting force is stepping down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tim Ulman (photo) is leaving the force after 25 years, Mayor Dan Rickord announced at the Nov. 8 meeting of city council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPeople don&#8217;t realize how much time and effort these guys put into it,\u201d the mayor said. \u201cThey risk their own lives. And they are so valuable that I want to give them a special &#8216;thank you&#8217;.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ulman, who owns and operates Ulman&#8217;s Carpet Cleaning &amp; Restoration Services, held the rank of lieutenant with the department for the past 15 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/arnoldlumber425\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"76\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ag-Page-Ad.jpg?resize=640%2C76&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ag-Page-Ad-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C121&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ag-Page-Ad-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C35&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ag-Page-Ad-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C91&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ag-Page-Ad-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C182&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ag-Page-Ad-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C242&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ag-Page-Ad-scaled.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ag-Page-Ad-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m just moving on, a new chapter in my life\u201d he told WZBD.com. \u201cIt&#8217;s time for some younger guys to take over.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The city department has 10 full-time firefighters, 25 paid on-call volunteers, and one fire marshal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com A veteran member of Decatur&#8217;s volunteer firefighting force is stepping down. Tim Ulman (photo)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17,14],"class_list":["post-9807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-community","tag-decatur"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Ulman.jpg?fit=273%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9807","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=9807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}