{"id":424796,"date":"2026-08-05T20:50:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T20:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/424796\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T20:50:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T20:50:25","slug":"restored-flagpole-keeps-retired-fresno-firefighter-and-vietnam-vets-legacy-flying-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/424796\/","title":{"rendered":"Restored flagpole keeps retired Fresno firefighter and Vietnam vet\u2019s legacy flying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The Fresno Fire Department restored the flagpole of a former Vietnam Veteran who turned out to be a retired Fresno Firefighter.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno Fire Department received a call for a special request.<\/p>\n<p>The widow of Ben Soto called requesting to have the flagpole restored in time to honor the one-year anniversary of his passing.<\/p>\n<p>A fire crew was sent out and honored to lend a hand.<\/p>\n<p>It was discovered that Soto was a Vietnam veteran but also a retired Fresno Firefighter who dedicated his life to serving both his country and his community.<\/p>\n<p>The department wrote, \u201cThank you for your service, Ben. We are proud to help ensure your flag continues to fly high.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The Fresno Fire Department restored the flagpole of a former Vietnam Veteran who turned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-424796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424796","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=424796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}