{"id":7033,"date":"2025-10-18T11:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T11:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/7033\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T11:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T11:31:08","slug":"giant-pumpkin-takes-center-stage-at-erie-fire-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/7033\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant pumpkin takes center stage at Erie fire station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A huge pumpkin sits outside a fire station here in Erie.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, one of the firefighters grows and harvests huge pumpkins and brings them to the station. <\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/annual-pumpkin-walk-returning-this-fall-with-plenty-of-gourd-vibes\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tAnnual Pumpkin Walk returning this fall with plenty of \u2018gourd\u2019 vibes\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A local artist spent nearly eight hours carving and painting the pumpkin.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters actually said that this is not the largest pumpkin in the history of their tradition, although it weighs close to 800 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/peekn-peak-fall-fest-37-years-of-fun-continues-this-october\/?ipid=promo-link-block2\" class=\"promo-link__link\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tPeek\u2019n Peak Fall Fest: 37 years of fun continues this October\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Darin Beckes, captain at the firehouse, said, \u201cHe had to load it at his house, but he used a tractor and slings, put it on a trailer, and then took four guys, they pulled it off, they didn\u2019t carry it. But they pulled it off the trailer and placed it here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beckes said that people in the neighborhood also enjoy participating in this tradition, often stopping to snag a photo with the carved pumpkin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A huge pumpkin sits outside a fire station here in Erie. Each year, one of the firefighters grows&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6293,136,138,137,6294,2294,2295,182],"class_list":{"0":"post-7033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-darin-beckes","9":"tag-erie","10":"tag-erie-headlines","11":"tag-erie-news","12":"tag-firehouse","13":"tag-fox-66","14":"tag-jet-24","15":"tag-local-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033","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=7033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}