{"id":321729,"date":"2026-08-15T00:08:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T00:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321729\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T00:08:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T00:08:52","slug":"manhattan-fire-department-turns-120-as-community-prepares-for-potato-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321729\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan fire department turns 120 as community prepares for Potato Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Manhattan Fire Department is celebrating its 120th anniversary this weekend, and the community is also gearing up for the town’s 40th annual Potato Festival.<\/p>\n

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Manhattan fire department turns 120 as community prepares for annual Potato Festival<\/p>\n

William Johnson, a firefighter and public information officer for the Manhattan Fire Department, noted the department’s deep roots in the area.<\/p>\n

“The fire department is actually five years older than the town of Manhattan.”<\/p>\n

Celebrations kick off Friday evening with a party at the fire department.<\/p>\n

“Come by this evening, dance, have some cake, and enjoy some time with friends and family,” Johnson said.<\/p>\n

On Saturday morning, the fire department is also hosting a pancake breakfast \u2014 its largest fundraiser. Every year, from 6 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., the department serves breakfast to around 1,200 people.<\/p>\n

Manhattan’s 40th annual Potato Festival also takes place on Saturday. More information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Manhattan Fire Department is celebrating its 120th anniversary this weekend, and the community is also gearing up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[29332,121224,75,2860,84,121226,83,121223,9,24,63,121225,121227],"class_list":["post-321729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-community-events","tag-fire-department-anniversary","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-fire-department","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-montana","tag-manhattan-news","tag-manhattan-potato-festival","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-pancake-breakfast-fundraiser","tag-potato-festival-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}