{"id":268439,"date":"2026-08-19T22:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T22:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268439\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T22:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T22:26:09","slug":"philadelphia-fire-department-holds-graduation-ceremony-for-204th-fire-cadet-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268439\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Fire Department holds graduation ceremony for 204th fire cadet class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, August 19, 2026 9:31PM<\/p>\n<p>It was graduation day for the Philadelphia Fire Department&#8217;s 204th Fire Cadet Class.<\/p>\n<p>WPVI<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; Philadelphia&#8217;s newest firefighters are now ready to hit the streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Wednesday was graduation day for the fire department&#8217;s 204th fire cadet class.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Class 204 featured a father-son duo, as Ahmir and Shawn Harris both graduated together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The ceremony happened at Franklin Towne Charter Elementary in the city&#8217;s Bridesburg neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">All cadets were sworn in and received their official assignments to one of the 63 firehouses across the city.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, August 19, 2026 9:31PM It was graduation day for the Philadelphia Fire Department&#8217;s 204th Fire Cadet Class.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[113177,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-268439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-113177","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268439","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=268439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}