{"id":111710,"date":"2026-01-05T20:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/111710\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T20:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:19:08","slug":"lfr-holds-news-conference-regarding-safe-haven-baby-boxes-first-ever-surrender-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/111710\/","title":{"rendered":"LFR holds news conference regarding Safe Haven Baby Boxes, first-ever surrender in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; On Monday, Lubbock Fire Rescue hosted a news conference at 2p.m., regarding Safe Haven Baby Boxes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to Lubbock Fire Chief Richard Stewart, a mother surrendered her baby at Fire Station 9\u2019s baby box within the past 10 days. According to LFR, this is the first-ever Safe Haven Baby Box surrender in Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The baby was safe<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The news conference took place at Citizens Tower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Speakers at this news conference included, <\/p>\n<p>Richard Stewart, Fire Chief of Lubbock Fire RescueMonica Kelsey, CEO of Safe Haven Baby BoxesMark McBrayer, Mayor of The City of Lubbock, TexasDr. Jennifer Wilson, City Councilmember &#8211; District 5Christy Martinez-Garcia, City Councilmember &#8211; District 1<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Right now, there are several Safe Haven Baby Boxes across the South Plains. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">One is located at Lubbock Fire Station 9. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">One location is at Covenant Children\u2019s in Lubbock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The other two locations are at the Covenant Health Facilities in Levelland and Plainview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Another location is in Wolfforth at the Wolfforth Fire Station. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; On Monday, Lubbock Fire Rescue hosted a news conference at 2p.m., regarding Safe Haven&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[12837,49558,49559,630,319,11770,168,170,169,17238,3175,49557,374],"class_list":{"0":"post-111710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-baby","9":"tag-boxes","10":"tag-citizens-tower","11":"tag-fire","12":"tag-kcbd","13":"tag-lfr","14":"tag-lubbock","15":"tag-lubbock-headlines","16":"tag-lubbock-news","17":"tag-news-conference","18":"tag-rescue","19":"tag-safe-haven","20":"tag-south-plains"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111710","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=111710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}