{"id":10567,"date":"2021-05-04T14:21:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T18:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=10567"},"modified":"2021-05-04T14:22:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T18:22:02","slug":"lfd-hires-seven-new-firefighters-and-one-firefighter-intern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/05\/04\/lfd-hires-seven-new-firefighters-and-one-firefighter-intern\/","title":{"rendered":"LFD hires seven new firefighters and one firefighter intern"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lakeland Fire Department (LFD) is pleased to announce the hiring of seven new firefighters and one firefighter intern: Shelly Boyer, Hai Ha, Christopher Clark, Kevin Thompson, Isaac Pacanins, Jacob Klingensmith, Brandon Chaves, and Hercules Betts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/182568153_3976383245762302_2860100524426848647_n.png?resize=499%2C330&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10568\" width=\"499\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/182568153_3976383245762302_2860100524426848647_n.png?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/182568153_3976383245762302_2860100524426848647_n.png?resize=300%2C198&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/182568153_3976383245762302_2860100524426848647_n.png?resize=768%2C508&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Orientation began on Monday, May 3, 2021. The new hires are filling vacancies from recent retirements and openings created as a result of internal promotions. The new firefighters began the department\u2019s month-long orientation program at the new LFD Training Center that opened earlier this year on January 4th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of the new hires are certified firefighters; however, the firefighters will experience the month-long orientation program to learn how to do things the \u201cLakeland\u201d way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the orientation, they review a full spectrum of practical skills they need to perform on the job, as well as emergency medical training before being released into the field. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new hires bring the department to a total of 179 personnel whom, last year alone responded to over 26,000 service calls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lakeland Fire Department (LFD) is pleased to announce the hiring of seven new firefighters and one firefighter intern: Shelly Boyer, Hai Ha, Christopher Clark, Kevin Thompson, Isaac Pacanins, Jacob&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-10567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-firefighters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}