{"id":412734,"date":"2026-09-28T12:20:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T12:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/412734\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T12:20:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T12:20:51","slug":"tallahassee-firefighters-earn-national-medals-at-u-s-firefighter-challenge-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/412734\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallahassee firefighters earn national medals at U.S. Firefighter Challenge Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ERIE, Pa. &#8212; Two Tallahassee firefighters are bringing home national honors after competing in a championship event in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Tallahassee Fire Department\u2019s Gene Liford and Brandon Corley represented the department at the Firefighter Challenge U.S. National Championship in Erie, Pennsylvania, from Sept. 23-26, earning multiple top-three finishes.<\/p>\n<p>Liford and Corley finished second in the nation in the Male Hybrid Relay and second in the nation in the Coed Hybrid Relay.<\/p>\n<p>Liford also posted several individual and tandem results, including third in the Coed Tandem, third in Division 1 Male Individual and third in the 30-39 Male Individual. Liford\u2019s individual performance earned him a third-place national finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ERIE, Pa. &#8212; Two Tallahassee firefighters are bringing home national honors after competing in a championship event in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-412734","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\/412734","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=412734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}