{"id":2591,"date":"2025-10-14T15:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/2591\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:06:07","slug":"leon-countys-volunteer-fire-companies-show-off-their-tools-and-talents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/2591\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon County&#8217;s volunteer fire companies show off their tools and talents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kids of all ages were in Tom Brown Park Saturday for the Leon County Volunteer Fire Truck Roundup. In the course of the event, special honors were given to a very veteran volunteer fire fighter.<\/p>\n<p>Chad Abrams, the county&#8217;s EMS chief, greeted a crowd of hundreds at the firefighting showcase.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Welcome and thank you for joining us for the 28th Annual Leon County Volunteer Fire Truck Roundup.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For all 28 of those years, Bobby Bacon with the Earl Bacon Insurance Agency has sponsored the Fire Fighter of the Year Award.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 2025 Firefighter of the Year, Karl Hook!&#8221; he announced as the crowd broke into cheers and applause.<\/p>\n<p>Hook has fought thousands of fires, rescued car wreck victims and even delivered babies over his 30-year volunteer career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kids of all ages were in Tom Brown Park Saturday for the Leon County Volunteer Fire Truck Roundup.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591","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=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}