{"id":260639,"date":"2026-08-06T22:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260639\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T22:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:48:09","slug":"memorial-for-fallen-pennsylvania-firefighters-breaks-ground-in-somerset-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260639\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial for fallen Pennsylvania firefighters breaks ground in Somerset County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial for fallen Pennsylvania firefighters breaks ground in Somerset County<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786056489_58_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Austin Boley\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>SOMERSET COUNTY, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Groundbreaking began Thursday in Somerset County for a memorial honoring firefighters who died in the line of duty across Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The Fallen Firefighter Memorial will pay tribute to the courage, commitment, and selflessness of these heroes, showcasing their names at the &#8220;Remember Me Garden&#8221; near the Flight 93 Memorial.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">&#8220;Every day they run into burning buildings and other catastrophes, putting their lives on the line to save other people. And to save other people&#8217;s property. And in the process, often, way too often, they fall victim to the fire themselves. So they choose to sacrifice as well,&#8221; Bill Cenk, president of Remember Me Rose Garden, said. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Construction will soon begin on the addition to the garden, which is open 365 days a year from dawn to dusk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Memorial for fallen Pennsylvania firefighters breaks ground in Somerset County SOMERSET COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 Groundbreaking began Thursday in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2480,31789,4329,13557,110523,110527,81447,11408,110524,25427,17043,14003,8589,110526,110528,48533,28,71759,30,29,110525,11266,3522],"class_list":["post-260639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-commitment","tag-courage","tag-day","tag-duty","tag-fallen-fighter-memorial","tag-fallen-firefighter","tag-firefighter-memorial","tag-flight","tag-flight-93-memorial","tag-garden","tag-groundbreaking","tag-line","tag-memorial","tag-memorial-honoring-firefighters","tag-other-catastrophe","tag-other-people","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-firefighter","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-remember-me-garden","tag-somerset-county","tag-thursday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260639","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=260639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}