{"id":388662,"date":"2026-07-28T04:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T04:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388662\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T04:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T04:29:10","slug":"east-texas-tonight-longview-fire-chief-greg-grimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388662\/","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Tonight: Longview Fire Chief Greg Grimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Tonight on East Texas Tonight, we\u2019re getting to know the man leading one of East Texas\u2019 busiest fire departments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Greg Grimes was recently named Fire Chief of the Longview Fire Department after more than 30 years in the fire service. Throughout his career, he\u2019s served as a firefighter, paramedic, instructor, rescue specialist, and leader during some of the state\u2019s most challenging emergencies. From teaching future firefighters to responding to natural disasters across Texas, Chief Grimes has dedicated his life to protecting others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tonight, we\u2019ll learn more about the person behind the badge, what brought him to East Texas, and what life looks like when he\u2019s not answering emergency calls.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Tonight on East Texas Tonight, we\u2019re getting to know the man leading one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[133173,136973,7802,136974,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-388662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-east-texas-tonight","tag-greg-grimes","tag-longview","tag-longview-fire-department","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388662","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=388662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}