{"id":85103,"date":"2026-01-13T01:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T01:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/85103\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T01:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T01:08:07","slug":"lower-macungie-mourns-passing-of-longtime-firefighter-western-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/85103\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Macungie mourns passing of longtime firefighter | Western Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Jim VanWert.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"526\" height=\"296\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/696593b04bb5b.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Courtesy of the Lower Macungie Fire Department<\/p>\n<p>LOWER MACUNGIE, Pa. &#8211; The Lower Macungie Fire Department has announced the passing of Jim VanWert, who served with the department for 45 years.<\/p>\n<p>Jim held various roles during his time, including nearly 25 years as Assistant Fire Chief.<\/p>\n<p>The department expressed that Jim\u2019s commitment and dedication will not be forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are asking the community to keep Jim\u2019s family and friends in their thoughts and prayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Courtesy of the Lower Macungie Fire Department LOWER MACUNGIE, Pa. &#8211; The Lower Macungie Fire Department has announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,42600,37416,5501,8631,42598,42599,2252,17090],"class_list":["post-85103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-assistant-fire-chief","tag-community-mourning","tag-dedication","tag-firefighter","tag-jim-vanwert","tag-lower-macungie-fire-department","tag-obituary","tag-public-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85103","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=85103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}