{"id":17358,"date":"2021-11-18T21:14:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T02:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=17358"},"modified":"2021-11-18T21:15:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T02:15:07","slug":"lakeland-fire-department-is-collecting-new-unwrapped-toys-for-local-children-in-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/11\/18\/lakeland-fire-department-is-collecting-new-unwrapped-toys-for-local-children-in-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland Fire Department is collecting new, unwrapped toys for local children in need"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s that time of year again! Lakeland Fire Department is collecting new, unwrapped toys for local children in need. The toy drive begins Monday, November 15, and runs through December 12. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"502\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/258782714_235234182032816_3794579596388100420_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/258782714_235234182032816_3794579596388100420_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/258782714_235234182032816_3794579596388100420_n-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/258782714_235234182032816_3794579596388100420_n-768x402.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We welcome the community to drop off a new, unwrapped toy at any of the department&#8217;s seven fire stations or its Fire Administration building. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The toy drive will benefit the Children&#8217;s Home Society of Florida and the Lakeland Dream Center, which distribute the collected gifts to Lakeland&#8217;s children in need through their established networks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event has been very successful every year, thanks to the generous donations by community members and firefighters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For station locations, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lakelandgov.net\/LFD?fbclid=IwAR2aXqvHULFyQYiYpbFj0vLiIkgPX7x57iGBNUrwV_pZRfaBj0Xs28bfZ60\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lakelandgov.net\/LFD<\/a>\u00a0or call (863) 834-8200<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again! Lakeland Fire Department is collecting new, unwrapped toys for local children in need. The toy drive begins Monday, November 15, and runs through December&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","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":[9],"tags":[1764,1765],"class_list":["post-17358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-lakeland-fire-department-is-collecting-new","tag-unwrapped-toys-for-local-children-in-need"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17358","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}