{"id":228326,"date":"2026-06-25T23:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/228326\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T23:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:48:17","slug":"avoca-fire-company-hosts-touch-a-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/228326\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoca Fire Company hosts Touch-A-Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Families enjoyed a special Father&#8217;s Day at Luzerne County&#8217;s touch-a-truck event, offering free admission for dads and a chance to explore various vehicles. <\/p>\n<p>AVOCA, Pa. \u2014 On Sunday, families and friends attended the rescheduled Touch-A-Truck at the Avoca Fire Company in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/luzerne-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" id=\"isPasted\">Luzerne County<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A range of vehicles was on hand, from fire trucks to construction equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Guests could also climb aboard the vehicles and meet local first responders.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Phillips from Moosic said the highlight of the day was seeing his kid smile.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s good just seeing him have a smile on his face,&#8221; said Phillips.<\/p>\n<p>As a special Father&#8217;s Day thank you, all fathers received free admission here at the Touch-A-Truck in Avoca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Families enjoyed a special Father&#8217;s Day at Luzerne County&#8217;s touch-a-truck event, offering free admission for dads and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-228326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228326","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=228326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}