{"id":63269,"date":"2023-06-28T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/14-firefighting-academy-graduates-to-join-kent-based-puget-sound-fire\/"},"modified":"2023-06-29T15:03:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T22:03:29","slug":"14-firefighting-academy-graduates-to-join-kent-based-puget-sound-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/14-firefighting-academy-graduates-to-join-kent-based-puget-sound-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"14 firefighting academy graduates to join Kent-based Puget Sound Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen Kent-based Puget Sound Fire firefighters were among the 46 recruits who graduated from the South King County Fire Training Consortium.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony was Tuesday night, June 27 at River of Life Fellowship Church in Kent. The new firefighters are from 11 King County fire departments and the King County Sheriff&rsquo;s Office Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting Unit.<\/p>\n<p>Family members, friends and firefighters attended the graduation, which included a chief&rsquo;s message from Fire Chief Ben Lane, of Eastside Fire &#038; Rescue, and a video of the recruits during the 21-week recruit fire academy. Firefighters received their badges, which were pinned on by loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>The new Puget Sound Fire firefighters are:<\/p>\n<p>Alan Arneson, Isaiah Brown, Joseph Giron, Daniel Jones, Astrid Martinez, Jose Perez Coria, Hunter Smith, Ethan Blechschmidt, Sebastian deBont, Aaron Henry, Adam Long, Joshua Padilla, Jordan Peterson-Scotter and Tanner Woelber.<\/p>\n<p>Giron and Henry were two of five firefighters selected to the Chief&rsquo;s company. The members of the Chief&rsquo;s company have demonstrated exemplary the 4-pillars of the academy. The 4-pillars are attitude, effort, performance and teamwork, The Chief&rsquo;s company members are selected by the recruit academy instructors.<\/p>\n<p>Puget Sound Fire serves the residents of Covington, Kent, Maple Valley, SeaTac, Tukwila, King County Fire District No. 37 and King County Fire District No. 43. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>43 graduates of South King County Fire Training Consortium to join 11 agencies <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":63270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-63269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63269"}],"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\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63269"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=63269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}