{"id":61443,"date":"2026-01-21T20:55:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=61443"},"modified":"2026-01-21T20:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:56:24","slug":"lakeland-fire-department-competes-in-rit-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/01\/21\/lakeland-fire-department-competes-in-rit-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland Fire Department Competes in RIT Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two Lakeland Fire Department Rapid Intervention Teams competed in the nation\u2019s only Fire Service Rapid Intervention Competition at the Southeast\u2019s largest Fire & Rescue Conference in Orlando.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This year\u2019s event featured a redesigned, skills-based course focused on core firemanship and real-world RIT operations. The new course created a challenging and humbling test for all teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Competitions like this are invaluable\u2014they expose gaps, test decision-making under pressure, and reveal areas of opportunity for improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The real win is bringing those lessons home, sharpening our skills, and getting better at the job that actually matters: taking care of our own on the fireground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Respect to the crews who put themselves out there, took on the challenge, and are committed to coming back stronger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two Lakeland Fire Department Rapid Intervention Teams competed in the nation\u2019s only Fire Service Rapid Intervention Competition at the Southeast\u2019s largest Fire & Rescue Conference in Orlando. This year\u2019s event… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61447,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDFcLzYxNzYwNTAxMV8xMjE4NDExODcwMzgxNzA0Xzg4NjQ1NTQ3MTc1ODEzNjA1Njlfbi0xLndlYnA_Zml0PTEwMjQlMkM2ODMmc3NsPTEiLCJ0eHQiOiJMYWtlbGFuZCBGaXJlIERlcGFydG1lbnQgQ29tcGV0ZXMgaW4gUklUIENvbXBldGl0aW9uIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJoaWdod2F5IiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.2_FqEQ7oCtbwjwoK8-yALxp9VazqqPkJxbEIW-wyVrEMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":61446,"url":"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/616232172_1218411990381692_3762315410415309587_n.webp","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61443","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=61443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61450,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61443\/revisions\/61450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}