{"id":19404,"date":"2015-04-03T15:06:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T22:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-fire-department-plans-to-hire-about-a-dozen-firefighters\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T18:35:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T01:35:38","slug":"kent-fire-department-plans-to-hire-about-a-dozen-firefighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-fire-department-plans-to-hire-about-a-dozen-firefighters\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Fire Department plans to hire about a dozen firefighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The <a title=\"kent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kentfirerfa.org\/\" target=\"_self\">Kent Fire Department Regional Fire Authority<\/a> is looking to hire as many as 10 to 12 firefighters this fall.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>With eight vacant positions and projected retirements later this year, the department needs the new hires, said spokesman Kyle Ohashi.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;Typically, we retire four to six people a year, but we are expecting a higher number of retirees due to a senior work force here,&#8221; Ohasi said in an email.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Kent has 217 firefighters and serves the cities of Kent, Covington and SeaTac as well as Fire District 37.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Applicants must complete the initial testing through Public Safety Testing by May 31 to be eligible. For more information, go to <a title=\"fire\" href=\"http:\/\/www.publicsafetytesting.com\/\" target=\"_self\">publicsafetytesting.com\/<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent Fire Department Regional Fire Authority is looking to hire as many as 10 to 12 firefighters this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":19405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-19404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19404"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}