ASHLAND, SCHUYLKILL CO. \u2014 Funeral arrangements have been announced for Pennsylvania State Trooper Michael Pahira, who was killed in the line of duty after being struck by a tractor-trailer while conducting a commercial vehicle inspection in Schuylkill County.<\/p>\n
Public visitation will be held Wednesday, July 8, from 8 to 10 a.m. at the North Schuylkill High School Auditorium, located at 15 Academy Lane, Ashland.<\/p>\n
The funeral service will follow at the same location from 11 a.m. to noon.<\/p>\n
Trooper Pahira died Wednesday after investigators said he was hit by a commercial truck along Interstate 81 in Cass Township while conducting a safety inspection. The driver of the tractor-trailer has been charged with homicide by vehicle.<\/p>\n
The Pennsylvania State Police and Pahira’s family are expected to release additional information regarding procession details and any public accommodations ahead of the services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASHLAND, SCHUYLKILL CO. \u2014 Funeral arrangements have been announced for Pennsylvania State Trooper Michael Pahira, who was killed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-235438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235438","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=235438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}