JU\u00c1REZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Thousands of borderland kids left the “Santa Bombero” event with a smile today after local firefighters held the 86th edition of this traditional campaign.<\/p>\n
Ju\u00e1rez Mayor Cruz P\u00e9rez Cu\u00e9llar, along with other local officials and departments, kicked off the event at 8 a.m. today. Hours before, tens of thousands of families were already lining up to be among the first to receive a Christmas gift for their kids.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a beautiful tradition from Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez that has been carried out without interruption for 86 years, so we must protect and preserve it; it is something that unites the people of Ju\u00e1rez,\u201d Mayor P\u00e9rez Cu\u00e9llar said.<\/p>\n
According to the Ju\u00e1rez Fire Department, approximately 50,000 toys and bicycles were collected to distribute to children, and around 3,500 people attended the event.<\/p>\n
Donations were made by the community, local businesses, private donors and the city of Ju\u00e1rez, along with some of its departments.<\/p>\n
ABC-7 was at the “Santa Bombero” event today and spoke with some of the children after they received their Christmas gifts; full story tonight on ABC-7 at 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JU\u00c1REZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Thousands of borderland kids left the “Santa Bombero” event with a smile today after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-99946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99946","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=99946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}