{"id":199337,"date":"2026-03-11T03:55:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/199337\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T03:55:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:55:33","slug":"lubbock-fire-rescue-captain-jake-mccain-has-numerous-roles-in-department-along-with-extensive-community-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/199337\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock Fire Rescue Captain Jake McCain has numerous roles in department along with extensive community service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Department: Lubbock Fire Rescue<\/p>\n<p>Name: Jake McCain<\/p>\n<p>Rank: Captain<\/p>\n<p>How long with department: 14 years<\/p>\n<p>Roles: Captain in Training Division training up and coming firefighters. Leads the Incident Command System committee to develop a new ICS model for LFR operations. Served on the Lubbock Fire Rescue Direct Action Response Team (DART). Heads Lubbock Professional Firefighters Association media team. Instructor with Wolfforth Fire Academy. <\/p>\n<p>How do you deal with stressful situations? Serves on Peer Support and Critical Incident Stress Management teams. Advocates for firefighter mental health with the Lubbock Firefighters Charitable Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Honors\/highlights: Recipient of the 2025 Outstanding Leadership Award.<\/p>\n<p>Community involvement beyond work: Volunteers for United Way &amp; Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA). Participates in the Leukemia &amp; Lymphoma Society Stair Climb in Seattle, Washington, the largest stair climb in the world.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Department: Lubbock Fire Rescue Name: Jake McCain Rank: Captain How long with department: 14 years Roles: Captain in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-199337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199337","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=199337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}