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The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department confirmed that one of its own died in a car crash on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n The Jacksonville Firefighters Death Benefit Fund, Inc. first posted about Rescue Engineer Colton R. Tibbetts, 23, death around 2:40 p.m.<\/p>\n The crash that killed Tibbetts happened Wednesday morning in Putnam County<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Florida Highway Patrol said it was a single-car crash and the driver lost control of the car and hit a sign and several trees.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department said in a social media post, just before 4:30 p.m., that Tibbetts had recently been promoted in November, saying it was \u201ca reflection of his commitment, work ethic, and the firefighter he was becoming.\u201d<\/p>\n JFRD also said that Tibbetts \u201cserved our community with pride.\u201d<\/p>\n Tibbetts followed in the footsteps of his father, recently retired Lieutenant Brian Tibbetts, and the Jacksonville Firefighters Death Benefit Fund, Inc. said Tibbetts came from a family of firefighters.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office sent its condolences to JFRD in a social post, saying in part:<\/p>\n \u201cWe send our deepest condolences to all affected by his tragic passing and offer our support to our brothers and sisters at JFRD however possible.\u201d<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department confirmed that one of its own died in a car crash on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[94601,2336,94599,618,3638,116,28116,94600,118,117,1415],"class_list":["post-206114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-brian-tibbetts","tag-car-crash","tag-colton-r-tibbetts","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-inc","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fire-and-rescue-department","tag-jacksonville-firefighters-death-benefit-fund","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-sheriffs-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}