{"id":815723,"date":"2026-08-16T17:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/815723\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T17:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:36:11","slug":"department-announces-unexpected-passing-of-taunton-firefighter-who-served-in-united-states-navy-fall-river-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/815723\/","title":{"rendered":"Department announces unexpected passing of Taunton Firefighter who served in United States Navy \u2013 Fall River Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Bristol County man who served the community in multiple capacities has died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Taunton Fire Department announced with profound sadness the unexpected passing of Firefighter Kyle Machado on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before joining the Taunton Fire Department, Kyle proudly served his country as part of the United States Navy for 8 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His commitment to service continued as he dedicated himself to protecting and serving the Taunton community as a firefighter. He joined the Taunton Fire Department on April 13th, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"MjIyLDMsMSw2MA==\" href=\"https:\/\/www.c2senergy.com\/careers\/#positions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/c2s-banner.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Machado leaves behind a wife and young children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Funeral arrangements have yet to be finalized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A cause of death was not released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bristol County man who served the community in multiple capacities has died. The Taunton Fire Department announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-815723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}