{"id":172006,"date":"2026-04-21T17:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/172006\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T17:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:21:15","slug":"erie-firefighters-win-thousands-on-national-game-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/172006\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie firefighters win thousands on national game show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">City of Erie firefighters teamed up to make their national television debut on Fox on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Five firefighters were taking on a team of nurses for a $100,000 grand prize on the Quiz with Balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/erie-firefighters-to-compete-on-national-game-show\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Erie firefighters to compete on national game show;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Erie firefighters to compete on national game show&quot;}\"> Erie firefighters to compete on national game show <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was part of the show\u2019s \u201cFirst Responder Face Off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Contestants faced trivia questions on a platform with giant balls, knocking players who got wrong answers into a pool below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The firefighters defeated the nurses and came one right answer away from the $100,000 prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Even though they didn\u2019t snag the grand prize, those Erie firefighters went home with $33,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On behalf of the JET 24\/FOX 66 team, congratulations!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City of Erie firefighters teamed up to make their national television debut on Fox on Monday night. Five&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,813,77158,77156,77157],"class_list":{"0":"post-172006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-headlines","10":"tag-erie-news","11":"tag-firefighters","12":"tag-grand-prize","13":"tag-national-television-debut","14":"tag-trivia-questions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172006","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=172006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}