{"id":907,"date":"2011-04-18T16:48:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T16:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backyardcitypools.wordpress.com\/?p=907"},"modified":"2011-04-18T16:48:35","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T16:48:35","slug":"fill-your-pool-and-support-your-local-fire-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/fill-your-pool-and-support-your-local-fire-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Fill Your Pool and Support Your Local Fire Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Cassville Volunteer Fire Company Tanker Truck\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cassvillefire.org\/images\/5608-1.jpg?resize=336%2C220&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tanker Truck\" width=\"336\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking for an easy\u00a0way to fill your\u00a0<a title=\"Above Ground Pools\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pools-Above-Ground-Pools.htm\" target=\"_blank\">swimming pool<\/a> this season and\u00a0support your local firefighters at the same time?\u00a0 Creative thinkers in Jackson, New Jersey,\u00a0developed a unique fundraising idea that would allow homeowners to fill their\u00a0backyard pools quickly\u00a0with clean\u00a0water by paying the local fire department a small fee to do the job.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For only $200, fire fighters from the Cassville Volunteer Fire Company drive their tanker truck\u00a0filled with clean water\u00a0to local residents&#8217; homes.\u00a0 The $200 buys 7,000 gallons of water, so filling a newly installed pool would cost more, but it&#8217;s a win\/win situation.\u00a0 Backyard swimming pools can be filled much more quickly this way, and the fire department raises funds which can be used for\u00a0necessities like\u00a0training and equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Community fire departments across the country could certainly benefit from a similar partnership with pool-owning citizens.\u00a0 The Cassville Volunteer Fire Company and the residents of Jackson, New Jersey, have proven that creative fundraising can work in everyone&#8217;s favor.<\/p>\n<p>* Photo source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cassvillefire.org\/pool.html\">https:\/\/www.cassvillefire.org\/pool.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for an easy\u00a0way to fill your\u00a0swimming pool this season and\u00a0support your local firefighters at the same time?\u00a0 Creative thinkers in Jackson, New Jersey,\u00a0developed a unique fundraising idea that would allow homeowners to fill their\u00a0backyard pools quickly\u00a0with clean\u00a0water by paying the local fire department a small fee to do the job.\u00a0 For only $200, fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[26,212],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovative-solutions","category-pool-opening","tag-above-ground-pools","tag-pool-opening-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2No25-eD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}