{"id":1639,"date":"2019-02-14T12:31:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T17:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2019-02-14T12:31:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T17:31:46","slug":"the-historic-aetna-ambulance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/14\/the-historic-aetna-ambulance\/","title":{"rendered":"The historic Aetna Ambulance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kudos to Fox 61 (WTIC-TV) for its <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"recent profile of Aetna Ambulance (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/fox61.com\/2019\/02\/11\/proud-to-serve-aetna-ambulance-seven-decades-of-service\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent profile of Aetna Ambulance<\/a>, which began in 1945 in response to an ambulance shortage during the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"1944 Circus Fire (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/circusfire.html\" target=\"_blank\">1944 Circus Fire<\/a>. The company, headquartered off  Van Block Street,  in the Sheldon\/Charter Oak neighborhood, also made history as the city&#8217;s first African American-owned ambulance service. Here&#8217;s the Fox 61 video:<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"\/\/cdn2.trb.tv\/iframe.html?ec=5maHQ4aDE6FZKKunch0pFPT6flEH7avW&amp;pbid=3c1df42a0ea4920b9489cfaaf8aec88&amp;pcode=U1YjUyOne3j1WfsytePVfLsfvesn\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to Fox 61 (WTIC-TV) for its recent profile of Aetna Ambulance, which began in 1945 in response to an ambulance shortage during the 1944 Circus Fire. The company, headquartered off Van Block Street, in the Sheldon\/Charter Oak neighborhood, also made history as the city&#8217;s first African American-owned ambulance service. Here&#8217;s the Fox 61 video:<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,35,27],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-business","tag-circus-fire","tag-public-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1643,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}