{"id":55371,"date":"2025-12-08T18:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/55371\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T18:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:09:11","slug":"exeter-firefighters-help-students-shop-for-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/55371\/","title":{"rendered":"Exeter firefighters help students shop for the holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Exeter Township Volunteer Fire Department took part in the annual \u201cShop with a Firefighter\u201d program along with other volunteers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Exeter Township Volunteer Fire Department members joined other volunteers Dec. 4 at Boscov's East for their annual &quot;Shop with a Firefighter&quot; event at Boscov's East. From left, firefighters Zander Boardman, Connor Freiwald and Giovanni Arias get ready to hit the help a youngster shop for his family and himself. (COURTESY OF EXETER FIRE DEPARTMENT)\" width=\"1512\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/REG-L-ETVFDshopping-02.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"2771762\" \/><\/p>\n<p>COURTESY OF EXETER FIRE DEPARTMENT<\/p>\n<p>Exeter Township Volunteer Fire Department members joined other volunteers Dec. 4 at Boscov\u2019s East for their annual \u201cShop with a Firefighter\u201d event at Boscov\u2019s East. From left, firefighters Zander Boardman, Connor Freiwald and Giovanni Arias get ready to hit the help a youngster shop for his family and himself. (COURTESY OF EXETER FIRE DEPARTMENT)<\/p>\n<p>The department partners with Boscov\u2019s to provide 20 Exeter School District students with a gift card to shop with a firefighter. The students shop for their family and themselves at Boscov\u2019s East to help make their holiday brighter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Exeter Township firefighters joined other volunteers at Boscov's East for their annual shop with a firefighter event. (COURTESY OF EXETER FIRE DEPARTMENT)\" width=\"2622\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/REG-L-ETVFDshopping-03.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"2771764\" \/><\/p>\n<p>COURTESY OF EXETER FIRE DEPARTMENT<\/p>\n<p>Exeter Township firefighters joined other volunteers at Boscov\u2019s East for their annual shop with a firefighter event. (COURTESY OF EXETER FIRE DEPARTMENT)<\/p>\n<p>NorthStar United Methodist Church members along with state Sen. Judy Schwank and Rep. Mark Gillen joined the group, which featured an appearance by Santa himself.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Christopher Jordan said he doesn\u2019t have to twist arms to get members to participate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey look forward to it every year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>After the event, crews enjoyed a meal at Exeter Family Restaurant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of the Exeter Township Volunteer Fire Department took part in the annual \u201cShop with a Firefighter\u201d program&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,1411,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-55371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-exeter-township","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55371","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=55371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}