{"id":4902,"date":"2013-09-20T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/?p=4902"},"modified":"2013-09-19T15:25:31","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T15:25:31","slug":"the-hartford-circus-fire-and-aetna-ambulance-volume-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/the-hartford-circus-fire-and-aetna-ambulance-volume-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hartford Circus Fire and Aetna Ambulance: Volume 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4904\" alt=\"HartfordCircusFireAerial-610x477\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/HartfordCircusFireAerial-610x477-300x234.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/HartfordCircusFireAerial-610x477-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/HartfordCircusFireAerial-610x477-383x300.jpg 383w, https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/HartfordCircusFireAerial-610x477.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>by Sam Porcello<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/10\/the-hartford-circus-fire-and-aetna-ambulance-volume-1\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Miss earlier volumes? Click here\u2026<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Reading the 1944 Transportation Committee of the Hartford War Council report on the Circus Fire from the State archives, Aetna Florist was listed as providing a delivery van to the scene of the fire to be used to transport the injured.\u00a0 In fact, Lucille Grady, who was in her twenties at the time, ran her brother\u2019s florist business while they were away at war, and drove the van to the scene of the fire. (Prior to leaving for the Navy in 1942, Herman and Howard decided to convert one of the delivery trucks into an ambulance.)\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I checked the Aetna Ambulance website, read about the company\u2019s history, and emailed members of management to find out more. Aetna management got back to me right away, answered a lot of my questions and also put me in touch with Dianne Grady Evans, daughter and niece of Howard and Herman Grady, founders of Aetna Ambulance.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/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>by Sam Porcello Miss earlier volumes? Click here\u2026 Reading the 1944 Transportation Committee of the Hartford War Council report on the Circus Fire from the State archives, Aetna Florist was listed as providing a delivery van to the scene of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/the-hartford-circus-fire-and-aetna-ambulance-volume-4\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- 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":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[116,53,46,9],"tags":[357,497,496],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4905,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}