{"id":168191,"date":"2026-02-17T14:48:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/168191\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:48:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:48:29","slug":"austin-officer-awarded-lifesaving-medal-for-heroic-actions-state-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/168191\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin officer awarded Lifesaving Medal for heroic actions | State News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Officer Miller of the Austin Police Department&#8217;s Ida 700s patrol shift has been honored with a Lifesaving Medal for his actions during an incident in August 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Officer Miller, along with his fellow officers from the North Central Austin patrol shift, provided critical medical aid and wound care to a victim, enabling Austin-Travis County EMS to transport the individual to the hospital for urgent care, according to a press release from the department.<\/p>\n<p>The quick response and teamwork of Officer Miller and his colleagues were instrumental in saving a life, and they were all recognized with the same award. &#8220;Great job, Officer Miller!&#8221; stated the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Officer Miller of the Austin Police Department&#8217;s Ida 700s patrol shift has been honored with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,16232],"class_list":["post-168191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-emergency-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168191","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=168191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}