{"id":11225,"date":"2025-10-19T18:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T18:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/11225\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T18:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T18:50:06","slug":"lubbock-fire-rescue-meets-with-public-at-fire-in-the-kitchen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/11225\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock Fire Rescue meets with public at \u2018Fire in the Kitchen\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Lubbock Fire Rescue met with the public, played some pickleball and showed off some of its equipment at its inaugural \u201cFire in the Kitchen\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The department reports it is continually looking for new ways to connect with the community. This was a more laid-back and fun way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Everyone was invited to play pickleball, either with or against firefighters, while getting a chance to ask questions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The crew members say they want you to know they are always there to help. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cBeing able to tie all those components together and being able to figure out, we are your Lubbock firefighters, these are your Lubbock fire apparatus, we are here to serve you,\u201d said Lubbock Fire Rescue public information officer Derek Delgado.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe want to make sure you know who is serving you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If you missed the event, don\u2019t worry. Delgado says they are planning to host additional matches in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Lubbock Fire Rescue met with the public, played some pickleball and showed off some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,9759,170,169],"class_list":["post-11225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-fire-rescue","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11225","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=11225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}