{"id":324584,"date":"2026-06-30T12:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/324584\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T12:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:55:08","slug":"st-pete-honors-legacy-six-citys-first-black-firefighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/324584\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete honors Legacy Six, city&#8217;s first black firefighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2013 City officials held a ceremony Monday honoring the <a href=\"https:\/\/fire.stpete.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">St. Petersburg Fire Department\u2019s<\/a> first black firefighters.<\/p>\n<p>Known as The Legacy Six, the men joined the department in 1972. Riley Preston Floyd, Stanton Singletary, Eddie Utley, Alfonso Borwn, Willie Barnes and Eugene Curry entered the profession during a time of significant social and racial barriers.<\/p>\n<p>In a released statement, city officials said the six men\u2019s commitment to public service not only protected the community but also helped transform the culture and future of the department.<\/p>\n<p>During Monday\u2019s recognition ceremony, fire officials unveiled the Legacy Six Dedication Plaque, which will be permanently displayed at fire rescue headquarters on MLK Jr. Street South.<\/p>\n<p>Also, a Legacy Six Scholarship has been established that will be awarded yearly to a Pinellas County student to honor the group and continue a commitment to service and opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2013 City officials held a ceremony Monday honoring the St. Petersburg Fire Department\u2019s first black&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[274,770,115,596,275,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,278],"class_list":["post-324584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-app-top-stories","tag-community-news","tag-news","tag-pinellas-county","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324584","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=324584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}