{"id":28979,"date":"2025-11-09T02:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T02:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/28979\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T02:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T02:21:09","slug":"pittsburgh-firefighters-operation-warm-provide-kids-with-free-winter-coats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/28979\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh firefighters, Operation Warm provide kids with free winter coats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/d6a623f473e454cc4b925d066c68d9cb.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Local firefighters helped make sure kids have a warm coat for the winter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Saturday, the Pittsburgh Fire Fighters Foundation held its annual warm winter coat giveaway in the city\u2019s Hazelwood neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kids from kindergarten throuhg fifth grade had the opportunity to get a coat, a hat and gloves, all through the foundation and the national nonprofit Operation Warm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe are seeing a lot of families coming in here that are very happy, very thankful,\u201d said Pittsburgh Fire Fighters IAFF Local 1 President Ralph Sicuro. \u201cBecause with the tight budgets they have at home, they\u2019re not able to go and spend that money. Instead of the kids wearing a sweatshirt all winter long, they\u2019ll be able to be in a nice warm coat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Organizers said they expected around 2,000 coats to be handed out this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local firefighters helped make sure kids have a warm coat for the winter. On Saturday, the Pittsburgh Fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18682,73,75,74,18683],"class_list":{"0":"post-28979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-operation-warm","9":"tag-pittsburgh","10":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","11":"tag-pittsburgh-news","12":"tag-warm-coat"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28979","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=28979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}