{"id":101523,"date":"2025-12-26T18:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T18:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/101523\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T18:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T18:29:06","slug":"lubbock-fire-rescue-captain-announces-retirement-after-20-years-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/101523\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock Fire Rescue captain announces retirement after 20 years of service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; After 24 years with Lubbock Fire Rescue, Captain Michael Dawson has submitted his letter of intent to retire, according to a social media post by LFR.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dawson joined LFR in September 2001 where he received multiple promotions including being named captain in 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the post, Dawson will now focus on spending time with his family while operating his HVAC business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">LFR said thank you to Captain Dawson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; After 24 years with Lubbock Fire Rescue, Captain Michael Dawson has submitted his letter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[22706,46402,11770,168,9759,170,169,46401,223,9670],"class_list":{"0":"post-101523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-captain","9":"tag-captain-dawson","10":"tag-lfr","11":"tag-lubbock","12":"tag-lubbock-fire-rescue","13":"tag-lubbock-headlines","14":"tag-lubbock-news","15":"tag-michael-dawson","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-retirement"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}