{"id":141541,"date":"2026-01-28T19:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/141541\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T19:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:28:15","slug":"2024-firefighter-of-the-year-luke-patterson-also-takes-lead-in-teaching-training-lubbock-fire-rescue-personnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/141541\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Firefighter of the Year Luke Patterson also takes lead in teaching, training Lubbock Fire Rescue personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear readers: This is the second installment of First Responder of the Week. Each week, we\u2019ll post a new entry rotating between Lubbock Police Department, Lubbock Fire Rescue and the Lubbock Sheriff\u2019s Department.<\/p>\n<p>Department: Lubbock Fire Rescue<\/p>\n<p>Name: Luke Patterson<\/p>\n<p>Rank: Firefighter<\/p>\n<p>How long with department: 13 years<\/p>\n<p>Roles: Firefighter &amp; Training Instructor. Besides being the senior firefighter at one of the department\u2019s busiest stations on A Shift, Patterson volunteers as a mentor to several rookies, teaching recruits around the station. He also teaches the newer nozzle forward firefighting technique to the entire department and to the recruit class, along with teaching them search and rescue. Patterson also assists with rescue project and data from station 8A. He\u2019s volunteered for extra training at FDIC and volunteered to be part of the training cadre for April\u2019s upcoming Search Culture training.<\/p>\n<p>Personal certification level: Firefighter &amp; EMT\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Honors\/highlights: 2024 Firefighter of the Year \u2013 Lubbock Fire Rescue. Luke was one of the crew members who rescued fire victims in January 2024 and December 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Hobbies &amp; interests: Farming &amp; spending time with family<\/p>\n<p>Community involvement beyond work: Luke also serves as Volunteer Fire Chief for Morton, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lubbocklights.com\/please-press-the-button-and-become-a-lubbock-lights-supporter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/volunteer_activism_96dp_000000_FILL0_wght400_GRAD0_opsz48.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11787\" style=\"width:80px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related posts\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t&#8211; Terry Greenberg is editor of Lubbock Lights. He worked in the newspaper industry for almost 40 years, 33 of those as editor of eight newspapers in five states. He was editor of the Avalanche-Journal&#8230;\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lubbocklights.com\/author\/greenbergmedia\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMore by Terry Greenberg\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dear readers: This is the second installment of First Responder of the Week. Each week, we\u2019ll post a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-141541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141541","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=141541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}