{"id":230782,"date":"2026-06-29T10:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/230782\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T10:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:24:07","slug":"lifters-compete-at-firehouse-fury-ii-in-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/230782\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifters compete at &#8216;Firehouse Fury II&#8217; in Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Competitors from around the world competed in the strongman competition, raising money for Taylor Fire and Rescue.<\/p>\n<p>TAYLOR, Pa. \u2014 Taylor Fire and Rescue hosted its second &#8220;Firehouse Fury&#8221; this Saturday at the Taylor Community Center in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The strongman-type competition welcomed competitors from all around the nation, all for a chance at being named the strongest man or woman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Newswatch 16 caught up with Danny Lottes from Gettysburg, who had just completed deadlifting 200 pounds 45 times in just one minute.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was seeing stars. I was ready to pass out,&#8221; said Lottes.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to raising awareness of volunteer fire departments, money raised from the competition will go towards Taylor Fire and Rescue.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Competitors from around the world competed in the strongman competition, raising money for Taylor Fire and Rescue. TAYLOR,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-230782","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\/230782","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=230782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}