{"id":383499,"date":"2026-08-28T12:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/383499\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T12:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:26:08","slug":"jacksonville-blood-drive-ends-67-59-with-firefighters-topping-police-in-red-cross-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/383499\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville blood drive ends 67-59, with firefighters topping police in Red Cross contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Onslow County \u2014 Jacksonville police and firefighters faced off Thursday, Aug. 27, in a friendly competition aimed at helping save lives.<\/p>\n<p>The departments took part in an annual blood drive in partnership with the American Red Cross.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville police said the final count was 67 to 59, with police coming up short in this year\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the loss, the department said the bigger victory was the number of people who came out to donate.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jacksonville police, American Red Cross staff said a large portion of the blood collected Thursday came from walk-in donors.<\/p>\n<p>The department thanked first responders, community members and Red Cross staff for taking part in the Aug. 27 event.<\/p>\n<p>Police also kept the rivalry going after the event, joking on social media that they still believe police are better than fire.<\/p>\n<p>The department said the event was ultimately about seeing the community come together for a greater cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Onslow County \u2014 Jacksonville police and firefighters faced off Thursday, Aug. 27, in a friendly competition aimed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-383499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383499","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=383499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}