{"id":301160,"date":"2026-10-06T23:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/301160\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T23:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:20:08","slug":"pennsylvania-breaks-ground-on-memorial-for-fallen-firefighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/301160\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania breaks ground on memorial for fallen firefighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news-team\/003b0fcd-4def-48bb-ad8b-2204a8b1d7fe\" aria-label=\"Lori Burkholder profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791328808_152_003b0fcd-4def-48bb-ad8b-2204a8b1d7fe_1654041445.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Lori Burkholder\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>HARRISBURG, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">First responders and state lawmakers broke ground Tuesday on Pennsylvania&#8217;s first permanent memorial honoring firefighters who died in the line of duty.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The Pennsylvania Fallen Firefighters Foundation is leading the effort to create the memorial, which will be located along Front Street in Harrisburg.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">&#8220;Since 2014, the foundation has worked towards this day. Twelve years of planning, fundraising, and refusing to give up. All for one goal: a permanent, statewide place of honor for our brothers and sisters,&#8221; the foundation said.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">&#8220;We can never, ever take for granted the work that firefighters do in our community every day. They&#8217;re the first on the scene when disaster strikes,&#8221; the foundation added.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">The Pennsylvania Fallen Firefighters Foundation is accepting donations for the memorial through its website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, Pa. \u2014 First responders and state lawmakers broke ground Tuesday on Pennsylvania&#8217;s first permanent memorial honoring firefighters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4509,71821,124037,124033,813,124030,13068,90277,37,71861,124031,124036,28,124029,30,29,124032,124034,294,2244,124038,124035],"class_list":["post-301160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-donations","tag-fallen-firefighters","tag-firefighter-deaths","tag-firefighter-honor","tag-firefighters","tag-firefighters-memorial","tag-first-responders","tag-front-street","tag-harrisburg","tag-line-of-duty","tag-memorial-groundbreaking","tag-memorial-site","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-fallen-firefighters-foundation","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-permanent-memorial","tag-planning-fundraising","tag-public-safety","tag-state-lawmakers","tag-state-memorial","tag-statewide-memorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301160","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=301160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}