{"id":479549,"date":"2026-09-29T17:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T17:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/479549\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T17:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T17:38:09","slug":"new-clovis-trail-honors-fallen-firefighter-clinton-letterman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/479549\/","title":{"rendered":"New Clovis trail honors fallen firefighter Clinton Letterman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLOVIS, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Clovis residents have a new place to walk, run and enjoy the outdoors with the completion of the expanded Letterman Trail.<\/p>\n<p>The trail is just over half a mile long, running between Barstow and Villa Avenues along the Fresno Irrigation District\u2019s Big Dry Creek Canal and through Letterman Park.<\/p>\n<p>The trail is named in honor of fallen Clovis firefighter Clinton J. Letterman and was made possible through federal grant funding and a partnership between the City of Clovis and Fresno Irrigation District.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/ribbon-cutting-marks-madera-polices-new-300000-mobile-command-post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ribbon-cutting marks Madera Police\u2019s new $300,000 mobile command post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on Tuesday, Sept. 29 at 8:30 a.m. near the northwest corner of Letterman Park at 908 Villa Ave.<\/p>\n<p>Letterman was a volunteer firefighter in Clovis in the 1960s and died in 1969 at the age of 44 when he suffered a heart attack while fighting a house fire. <\/p>\n<p>The ceremony included remarks from project partners and a memorial presentation by the Clovis Fire Department honoring Letterman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLOVIS, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Clovis residents have a new place to walk, run and enjoy the outdoors with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-479549","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\/479549","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=479549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}