{"id":82330,"date":"2026-09-27T19:55:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T23:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=82330"},"modified":"2026-09-27T19:55:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T23:55:51","slug":"meet-the-worlds-shortest-female-firefighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/09\/27\/meet-the-worlds-shortest-female-firefighter\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the World’s Shortest Female Firefighter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Autumn Kelso<\/strong>, a firefighter and paramedic with the St. Pete Beach Fire Department, officially holds the Guinness World Record for the shortest female firefighter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Standing at 4 feet 10 inches (147.32 cm) tall<\/strong>, Kelso earned the official title after completing the formal measurement process verified by Guinness World Records.<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • How it Started:<\/strong> The record application originally began as a friendly joke among her crew members at the fire station. After a colleague checked Guinness criteria and realized she qualified, they completed the official submission process.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Career Path:<\/strong> After spending her 20s working in the corporate world behind a desk, Kelso transitioned into emergency services and has been a firefighter for over five years.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Tactical Advantage:<\/strong> Kelso and her crew view her height as a major asset in tight spaces. Her colleagues affectionately call her “spider monkey,” and she is often tasked with crawling into small attics, navigating tight windows, or squeezing through wreckage where taller firefighters cannot fit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Autumn Kelso, a firefighter and paramedic with the St. Pete Beach Fire Department, officially holds the Guinness World Record for the shortest female firefighter. Standing at 4 feet 10 inches… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82331,"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":"","_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDlcL2ltYWdlcy0yMy53ZWJwP2ZpdD00NTklMkM2Njgmc3NsPTEiLCJ0eHQiOiJNZWV0IHRoZSBXb3JsZCYjODIxNztzIFNob3J0ZXN0IEZlbWFsZSBGaXJlZmlnaHRlciIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiZG9pcyIsImZvbnQiOiIiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.ifZRd_F9B2KXEKD1BNxJwoDTTbPVujwIL8mpxUvGc_0MQ"},"version":2,"media_source":"sig","attached_media":[{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/redirect\/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbGFrZWxhbmRnYXpldHRlLmluZm9cL25ld3NcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjZcLzA5XC9pbWFnZXMtMjMud2VicCIsInR4dCI6Ik1lZXQgdGhlIFdvcmxkJ3MgU2hvcnRlc3QgRmVtYWxlIEZpcmVmaWdodGVyIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJkb2lzIiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.J6vFAg49nqSWroFzaPH6e-EfWUBkmwle5xUr8RV21mEMQ","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[17555,17561,17562,15267,17556,17563,17557,17558],"class_list":["post-82330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional-and-world-news","tag-autumn-kelso","tag-female-firefighters","tag-firefighting","tag-florida-news","tag-guinness-world-record","tag-inspiring-stories","tag-shortest-female-firefighter","tag-st-pete-beach-fire-department"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82330","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=82330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82332,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82330\/revisions\/82332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}