{"id":294784,"date":"2026-09-27T02:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T02:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/294784\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T02:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T02:32:10","slug":"central-kentucky-firefighters-win-medals-at-national-challenge-series-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/294784\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Kentucky firefighters win medals at national challenge series in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) &#8211; Firefighters from across the country gathered in Pennsylvania this last week to compete in the Firefighter Challenge Championship Series. Members of the Lexington Fire Department sent their Combat Challenge team to compete, where they brought home several awards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The men\u2019s under 40 relay team won gold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lexington Fire also brought home two silver medals in the men\u2019s under 40 and women\u2019s under 30 individual races, with Andrew Cook and Chelsey Gerard earning those prizes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lexington Fire said their teams will take a few weeks to regroup before heading to Las Vegas for the World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholasville team takes bronze<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Members of the Nicholasville Fire Department Combat Challenge team also competed in the Firefighter Combat Challenge US Championship in Erie, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lt. Loren Bewley, Firefighter Ezekiel Reynolds and Firefighter Jeremy Smith took third place in the under 40 CoEd Relay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">SEO keywords:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link | text-reset d-block h-100 w-100\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wkyt.com\/page\/wkyt-apps-for-ios-and-android-devices\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"WKYT Streaming Apps\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MEPHTWNVMREWLEQQWWFJM27ZMA.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WKYT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) &#8211; Firefighters from across the country gathered in Pennsylvania this last week to compete in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[121987,121985,121986,28,30,29,121984],"class_list":["post-294784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-central-ky-firefighters","tag-lexington-fire","tag-nicholasville-fire","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-wkyt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294784","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=294784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}