{"id":320773,"date":"2026-06-03T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/320773\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T11:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:30:08","slug":"east-el-paso-fire-station-presented-with-special-flag-for-americas-250th-birthday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/320773\/","title":{"rendered":"East El Paso fire station presented with special flag for America&#8217;s 250th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-El-Paso-Co-300x169.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-1116125\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>PHOTOS: A fire station in East El Paso was chosen to be part of a countrywide tour honoring America\u2019s 250th birthday and the American flag.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, representatives from the life insurance company Woodmen Life stopped by El Paso Fire Station 20, located at 8301 Edgemere Blvd., near Burges High School, to present first responders with a special Betsy Ross 250 U.S. flag.<\/p>\n<p>This El Paso fire station was the last stop in a tour that included seven states.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the ceremony, the City of El Paso contributed an artifact representing the Borderland community to a time capsule project in Omaha, Nebraska, which will be opened either in 25 or 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>KFOX14\/CBS4 spoke with EPFD Lieutenant Mitchell Marquez, who called the flag beautiful and said the station is proud to have it.<\/p>\n<p>KFOX-TV FOX 14 El Paso<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: A fire station in East El Paso was chosen to be part of a countrywide tour honoring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,27],"class_list":["post-320773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320773","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=320773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}