{"id":208978,"date":"2026-03-27T22:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/208978\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T22:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:54:08","slug":"candlelight-vigil-set-for-jacksonville-firefighter-killed-in-melrose-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/208978\/","title":{"rendered":"Candlelight vigil set for Jacksonville firefighter killed in Melrose crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">KEYSTONE HEIGHTS, Fla. (WCJB) \u2014 A candlelight vigil was set for a Jacksonville firefighter who died in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/03\/25\/23-year-old-jacksonville-firefighter-dies-early-morning-crash-melrose\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/03\/25\/23-year-old-jacksonville-firefighter-dies-early-morning-crash-melrose\/\">vehicle crash<\/a> in Melrose this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say the vigil for Colton Tibbetts, 23, will be at Keystone Beach in Keystone Heights on Saturday night, starting at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Florida Highway Patrol troopers say he lost control of his vehicle early Wednesday morning, causing it to flip over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tibbetts previously worked for the Melrose Fire Department before going to Jacksonville Fire Rescue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">TRENDING: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/03\/25\/23-year-old-jacksonville-firefighter-dies-early-morning-crash-melrose\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/03\/25\/23-year-old-jacksonville-firefighter-dies-early-morning-crash-melrose\/\">23-year-old Jacksonville firefighter dies in early morning crash in Melrose<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KEYSTONE HEIGHTS, Fla. (WCJB) \u2014 A candlelight vigil was set for a Jacksonville firefighter who died in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,95620,118,117],"class_list":["post-208978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-firefighter-death-colton-tibbetts-melrose-vehicle-crash-keystone-heights-vigil-florida-highway-patrol","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208978","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=208978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}