{"id":1517813,"date":"2026-06-23T14:51:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1517813"},"modified":"2026-06-23T16:31:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:31:05","slug":"brewing-company-donates-water-to-vfds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1517813","title":{"rendered":"Water donations made to VFDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/brewing-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1517814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/brewing-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/brewing-678x678.jpg 678w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/brewing-768x769.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/brewing.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>MINEOLA &#8211;  Ahead of wildfire season, Anheuser-Busch, delivered over 1.5 million cans of emergency drinking water to volunteer fire departments\u00a0across the country, including several in East Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The donations provide volunteer firefighters with vital resources\u00a0during wildfire season as their resources are often restricted due to limited department budgets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnheuser-Busch is proud to periodically pause brewing beer at several of our breweries\u00a0in order to\u00a0produce clean emergency drinking water that is then provided to volunteer firefighters across the country,\u201d External Affairs Officer Cesar Vargas said. \u201cOur partnership with the National Volunteer Fire Council to support front-line first responders\u00a0builds\u00a0on our 100-year legacy of being there to support our communities when natural disasters strike.\u201d\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Through the donations, 1.5 million cans of emergency drinking water will be distributed to over 630 volunteer fire departments across 45 states. This is the eighth year in a row that Anheuser-Busch has donated water to volunteer fire departments.<\/p>\n<p>The Mineola Fire Department and the Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department recently received donations from Anheuser-Busch that will help firefighters stay hydrated throughout the summer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINEOLA &#8211; Ahead of wildfire season, Anheuser-Busch, delivered over 1.5 million cans of emergency drinking water to volunteer fire departments\u00a0across the country, including several in East Texas. The donations provide volunteer firefighters with vital resources\u00a0during wildfire season as their resources are often restricted due to limited department budgets. \u201cAnheuser-Busch is proud to periodically pause brewing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1517813\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Water donations made to VFDs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1517814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 17:23:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1517813"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517843,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517813\/revisions\/1517843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1517814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1517813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1517813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1517813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}