{"id":395252,"date":"2026-07-12T02:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T02:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/395252\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T02:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T02:01:14","slug":"nonprofit-gives-sacramento-firefighters-free-slurpee-drinks-to-celebrate-7-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/395252\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit gives Sacramento firefighters free Slurpee drinks to celebrate 7\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(FOX40.COM) \u2014 Sacramento firefighters received a sweet surprise Saturday to commemorate National Slurpee Day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The California Fire Foundation, a non-profit that assists firefighters and their families, partnered with 7-Eleven to give out the icy treat to crews across the Sacramento area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/fox40.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/07\/Slurpee-photo.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"&lt;em&gt;Sacramento firefighters pose with their beverages (Credit: California Fire Foundation)&lt;\/em&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/ktxl_articles_604\/cbe604c9cf757ea9c96c9eca71a564e9.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sacramento firefighters pose with their beverages (Credit: California Fire Foundation)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The foundation said in a news release Saturday that the beverages were &#8220;a small gesture of appreciation for their unwavering dedication to protecting California communities during another busy fire season.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Civilians can join in on the Slurpee day celebrations without picking up a fire hose, since 7-Eleven is giving away free small Slurpee drinks to all customers on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Slurpee is celebrating its 60th birthday in 2026, after 7-Eleven cut a licensing deal with Icee back in 1965 to sell the slushy beverage at its convenience stores.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX40 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/fox40.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX40 News.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(FOX40.COM) \u2014 Sacramento firefighters received a sweet surprise Saturday to commemorate National Slurpee Day.\u00a0 The California Fire Foundation,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[41211,121,873,123,122,158912],"class_list":["post-395252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-7-eleven","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-area","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-slurpee-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}