{"id":12925,"date":"2025-10-23T21:36:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/12925\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T21:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:36:06","slug":"bethlehem-fire-dept-honors-fallen-members-with-memorial-service-at-fire-company-bethelehm-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/12925\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem Fire Dept. honors fallen members with memorial service at fire company | Bethelehm Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; The Bethlehem Fire Department is paying tribute to current and former members who recently died.<\/p>\n<p>They held a memorial service on Thursday at Fire Company Number-6 on West Broad Street.<\/p>\n<p>They honored three firefighters, including two who had been retired after serving in the department for years.<\/p>\n<p>The fire chief said it&#8217;s important to honor those who paved the way and helped advance ways to fight fires.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They led in a way that they set the standard for who we are today. They encountered challenges and overcame those challenges,&#8221; said Chief Matthew Griffin of the fire department.<\/p>\n<p>Members of Liberty High School&#8217;s band also performed &#8220;Taps&#8221; and &#8220;Amazing Grace&#8221; as part of the ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; The Bethlehem Fire Department is paying tribute to current and former members who recently died.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,9942,9945,9946,9943,9944,9947,4664,237,28],"class_list":["post-12925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-dept-h","tag-draftwake-and-district-pipe-band","tag-elsmere","tag-emmitsburg","tag-firefighting-in-the-united-states","tag-liberty-high-school","tag-maryland","tag-new-york","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}