{"id":88291,"date":"2025-12-18T18:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/88291\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T18:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:50:14","slug":"orlando-area-fire-departments-have-jolly-ol-time-rappelling-down-adventhealth-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/88291\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando-area fire departments have jolly ol&#8217; time rappelling down AdventHealth for Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orange County Fire Rescue and the Orlando Fire Department gave some children and families at AdventHealth for Children in Orlando a holiday surprise on Thursday, as they rappelled down the side of the children\u2019s hospital, spreading cheer through the windows. Now in its ninth year, the \u201cElf Rappel\u201d event has become a tradition for Orlando-area fire departments. Dressed as elves, they gave Santa and Mrs. Claus\u2014who were also high above on ladder trucks\u2014an assist as they flipped and played along with the kids, having a jolly ol\u2019 time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Alex &quot;Fonzy&quot; Ildefonso, from Orange County Fire Rescue, rappels down the side of AdventHealth for Children, interacting with children and their families through the windows on Thursday, December 18, 2025. (Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)\" width=\"6000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tos-l-adventhealth-elf-rappel-3.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"14866506\" \/>Alex \u201cFonzy\u201d Ildefonso, from Orange County Fire Rescue, rappels down the side of AdventHealth for Children, interacting with children and their families through the windows on Thursday, December 18, 2025. (Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Orange County Fire Rescue and the Orlando Fire Department rappel down the side of AdventHealth for Children, interacting with children and their families through the windows on Thursday, December 18, 2025.(Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)\" width=\"4816\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tos-l-adventhealth-elf-rappel-4.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"14866504\" \/>Orange County Fire Rescue and the Orlando Fire Department rappel down the side of AdventHealth for Children, interacting with children and their families through the windows on Thursday, December 18, 2025.(Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Orange County Fire Rescue and the Orlando Fire Department rappel down the side of AdventHealth for Children, interacting with children and their families through the windows on Thursday, December 18, 2025.(Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)\" width=\"5690\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tos-l-adventhealth-elf-rappel-13.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"14866518\" \/>Orange County Fire Rescue and the Orlando Fire Department rappel down the side of AdventHealth for Children, interacting with children and their families through the windows on Thursday, December 18, 2025.(Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Santa gives a wave from high above in a ladder truck as Orange County Fire Rescue and the Orlando Fire Department rappel down the side of AdventHealth for Children, interacting with children and their families through the windows on Thursday, December 18, 2025.(Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)\" width=\"5483\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tos-l-adventhealth-elf-rappel-11.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"14866515\" \/>Santa gives a wave from high above in a ladder truck as Orange County Fire Rescue and the Orlando Fire Department rappel down the side of AdventHealth for Children, interacting with children and their families through the windows on Thursday, December 18, 2025.(Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  lazyautosizes lazyloading\" alt=\"Adam Garcia, from Orange County Fire Rescue, rappels down the side of AdventHealth for Children, interacting with children and their families through the windows on Thursday, December 18, 2025. (Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)\" width=\"6000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tos-l-adventhealth-elf-rappel-8.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"14866512\" \/>Adam Garcia, from Orange County Fire Rescue, rappels down the side of AdventHealth for Children, interacting with children and their families through the windows on Thursday, December 18, 2025. (Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Adam Garcia, from Orange County Fire Rescue, rappels down the side of AdventHealth for Children, interacting with children and their families through the windows on Thursday, December 18, 2025. (Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)\" width=\"6000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tos-l-adventhealth-elf-rappel-9.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"14866511\" \/>Adam Garcia, from Orange County Fire Rescue, rappels down the side of AdventHealth for Children, interacting with children and their families through the windows on Thursday, December 18, 2025. (Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  lazyautosizes lazyloading\" alt=\"Santa gives a wave from high above in a ladder truck as Orange County Fire Rescue and the Orlando Fire Department rappel down the side of AdventHealth for Children, interacting with children and their families through the windows on Thursday, December 18, 2025.(Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)\" width=\"6000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tos-l-adventhealth-elf-rappel-10.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"14866510\" \/>Santa gives a wave from high above in a ladder truck as Orange County Fire Rescue and the Orlando Fire Department rappel down the side of AdventHealth for Children, interacting with children and their families through the windows on Thursday, December 18, 2025.(Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Santa goes through his sack from high above in a ladder truck as Orange County Fire Rescue and the Orlando Fire Department rappel down the side of AdventHealth for Children, interacting with children and their families through the windows on Thursday, December 18, 2025.(Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)\" width=\"5558\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tos-l-adventhealth-elf-rappel-6.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"14866509\" \/>Santa goes through his sack from high above in a ladder truck as Orange County Fire Rescue and the Orlando Fire Department rappel down the side of AdventHealth for Children, interacting with children and their families through the windows on Thursday, December 18, 2025.(Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Orange County Fire Rescue and the Orlando Fire Department rappel down the side of AdventHealth for Children, interacting with children and their families through the windows on Thursday, December 18, 2025.(Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)\" width=\"5654\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tos-l-adventhealth-elf-rappel-5.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"14866508\" \/>Orange County Fire Rescue and the Orlando Fire Department rappel down the side of AdventHealth for Children, interacting with children and their families through the windows on Thursday, December 18, 2025.(Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Santa gives a wave from high above in a ladder truck as Orange County Fire Rescue and the Orlando Fire Department rappel down the side of AdventHealth for Children, interacting with children and their families through the windows on Thursday, December 18, 2025.(Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)\" width=\"4771\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tos-l-adventhealth-elf-rappel-7.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"14866507\" \/>Santa gives a wave from high above in a ladder truck as Orange County Fire Rescue and the Orlando Fire Department rappel down the side of AdventHealth for Children, interacting with children and their families through the windows on Thursday, December 18, 2025.(Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Alex &quot;Fonzy&quot; Ildefonso, from Orange County Fire Rescue, rappels down the side of AdventHealth for Children, interacting with children and their families through the windows on Thursday, December 18, 2025. (Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)\" width=\"4594\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tos-l-adventhealth-elf-rappel-12.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"14866516\" \/>Alex \u201cFonzy\u201d Ildefonso, from Orange County Fire Rescue, rappels down the side of AdventHealth for Children, interacting with children and their families through the windows on Thursday, December 18, 2025. (Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Orange County Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Thomas Farrel waves to Kaleb Muniz and Elijah Brown, patients at AdventHealth for Children, as Orange County Fire Rescue and the Orlando Fire Department rappel down the side of the building, interacting with children and their families through the windows. Now in its ninth year, the &quot;Elf Rappel&quot; event has become a tradition for Orlando-area fire departments. Dressed as elves, they spread cheer down the side of the children hospital with help from Santa and Mrs. Claus, who are also high above on ladder trucks, playing along in their usual jolly manner.(Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)\" width=\"5468\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tos-l-adventhealth-elf-rappel-1_255121026.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"14866524\" \/>Orange County Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Thomas Farrel waves to Kaleb Muniz and Elijah Brown, patients at AdventHealth for Children, as Orange County Fire Rescue and the Orlando Fire Department rappel down the side of the building, interacting with children and their families through the windows. Now in its ninth year, the \u201cElf Rappel\u201d event has become a tradition for Orlando-area fire departments. Dressed as elves, they spread cheer down the side of the children hospital with help from Santa and Mrs. Claus, who are also high above on ladder trucks, playing along in their usual jolly manner.(Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orange County Fire Rescue and the Orlando Fire Department gave some children and families at AdventHealth for Children&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,266,139,141,140,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-88291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-latest-headlines","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-orlando","11":"tag-orlando-headlines","12":"tag-orlando-news","13":"tag-social"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88291","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=88291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}