{"id":28987,"date":"2025-11-09T02:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T02:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/28987\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T02:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T02:45:07","slug":"pittsburgh-firefighters-operation-warm-provide-kids-with-free-winter-coats-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/28987\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh firefighters, Operation Warm provide kids with free winter coats \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Local firefighters helped make sure kids have a warm coat for the winter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">On Saturday, the Pittsburgh Fire Fighters Foundation held its annual warm winter coat giveaway in the city\u2019s Hazelwood neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">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=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\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=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Organizers said they expected around 2,000 coats to be handed out this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Local firefighters helped make sure kids have a warm coat for the winter. On Saturday, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18687,18689,18692,813,18690,8429,18686,18691,18688,18682,73,18685,75,74,18693],"class_list":{"0":"post-28987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-coat-giveaway","9":"tag-coats","10":"tag-distribtuion","11":"tag-firefighters","12":"tag-foundation","13":"tag-free","14":"tag-free-coat","15":"tag-giveaway","16":"tag-kids-coats","17":"tag-operation-warm","18":"tag-pittsburgh","19":"tag-pittsburgh-firefighters","20":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","21":"tag-pittsburgh-news","22":"tag-winter-coat"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28987","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=28987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}