{"id":266957,"date":"2026-08-17T16:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266957\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T16:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:54:08","slug":"clarks-summit-fire-company-hosts-fire-training-in-lackawanna-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266957\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarks Summit Fire Company hosts fire training in Lackawanna County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newswatch 16 stopped by to see volunteers work with fire equipment and learn how to plan for future fires.<\/p>\n<p>CLARKS SUMMIT, Pa. \u2014 On Saturday, Clarks Summit Fire Company, along with surrounding departments, conducted a &#8220;fire training&#8221; \u00a0exercise in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The training was held at a building along Center Street in Clarks Summit.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers got the chance to work with various equipment and learn about how to plan for future active fires.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are departments that would be working in a real-life incident. Combining that with the training today, getting them all together really gives them a step up when they are responding to real emergencies,&#8221; said Pennsylvania Fire Academy instructor Jim Cuzmack.<\/p>\n<p>Crews operated power equipment, hose lines, and aerial ladders during today&#8217;s fire training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newswatch 16 stopped by to see volunteers work with fire equipment and learn how to plan for future&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-266957","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\/266957","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=266957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}