{"id":32487,"date":"2025-11-12T23:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/32487\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T23:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:59:08","slug":"northampton-borough-fire-department-mourns-loss-of-department-captain-nazareth-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/32487\/","title":{"rendered":"Northampton Borough Fire Department mourns loss of department captain | Nazareth Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORTHAMPTON BORO., Pa. &#8211; The captain of a fire department in Northampton County has died.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Northampton Borough Fire Department (NFD) has announced the death of Captain Michael Booke.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Michael Booke\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1247\" height=\"1663\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6914dfd5ca8b4.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"267\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Photo courtesy of Northampton Borough Fire Department<\/p>\n<p>The fire department said that Booke joined the department in 1998 and served in numerous roles, most recently as Captain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his service with the NFD, he was a trooper with the Pennsylvania State Police, eventually becoming the Fire Marshall of Troop M before retiring in 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Captain Booke was known for his willingness to assist others, often volunteering for difficult tasks, sharing his expertise, and providing support during challenging times,&#8221; the fire department said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NorthamptonFire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook post<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTHAMPTON BORO., Pa. &#8211; The captain of a fire department in Northampton County has died.\u00a0 Northampton Borough Fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,5750],"class_list":{"0":"post-32487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news","12":"tag-nazareth-northampton-area"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32487","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=32487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}