{"id":603,"date":"2022-05-04T11:08:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T16:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/repbradstephens.com\/?p=603"},"modified":"2022-05-05T11:08:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T16:08:35","slug":"international-firefighters-day-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/repbradstephens.com\/international-firefighters-day-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"International Firefighters Day 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks\u00a0<strong>International Firefighters Day<\/strong>, a day we remember and honor our community\u2019s firefighters who protect us, as well as those who made the ultimate sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Illinois lost five firefighters:\u00a0<strong>Mehdi Mourad<\/strong>\u00a0of the Wabash Fire Protection District (End of Watch: June 27th, 2021);\u00a0<strong>Michael R. Pickering<\/strong>\u00a0of the Chicago Fire Department (EOW: October 8th, 2021);\u00a0<strong>Scott Williams<\/strong>\u00a0of the Argonne National Laboratory Fire Department (EOW: November 21st, 2021);\u00a0<strong>Garrett E. Ramos<\/strong>\u00a0of the Sterling Fire Department (EOW: December 4th, 2021); and\u00a0<strong>Mashawn J. Plummer<\/strong>\u00a0of the Chicago Fire Department (EOW: December 21st, 2021).<\/p>\n<p>Today, our hearts are with the families of these fallen heroes and all firefighter families who sacrifice so much to keep our communities safe. Thank you to the brave people who wake up each day and serve with courage to protect us and our homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks\u00a0International Firefighters Day, a day we remember and honor our community\u2019s firefighters who protect us, as well as those who made the ultimate sacrifice. In 2021, Illinois lost five firefighters:\u00a0Mehdi Mourad\u00a0of the Wabash Fire Protection District (End of Watch: June 27th, 2021);\u00a0Michael R. Pickering\u00a0of the Chicago Fire Department (EOW: October 8th, 2021);\u00a0Scott Williams\u00a0of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/repbradstephens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/repbradstephens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/repbradstephens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/repbradstephens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/repbradstephens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/repbradstephens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/repbradstephens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/repbradstephens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/repbradstephens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/repbradstephens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/repbradstephens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}