{"id":242149,"date":"2026-07-13T11:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242149\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T11:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:27:07","slug":"community-comes-together-for-fire-company-carnival-in-dalton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242149\/","title":{"rendered":"Community comes together for fire company carnival in Dalton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALTON, Pa. \u2014 Community members came out to the Dalton Fire Carnival Grounds in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a> Saturday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The carnival along Bank Street in Dalton offered several food stands, rides, and vendors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We spoke to the Dalton Fire Company President, Brent Tripp, who said his company&#8217;s beer stand was dedicated to its assistant fire chief, who passed away suddenly at age 40, &#8220;Doc was our Assistant Chief. Unfortunately, he passed away 2 years ago, so we dedicated our stand that he loved to work in his honor. Doc&#8217;s lookin down on us tonight, he helped us out with the weather. A little bit of rain, but it went away, so we&#8217;re doing really good tonight.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Something different this year, the carnival had a flyover by a paraglider before the sun went down instead of fireworks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALTON, Pa. \u2014 Community members came out to the Dalton Fire Carnival Grounds in Lackawanna County Saturday evening.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-242149","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\/242149","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=242149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}