{"id":11260,"date":"2012-03-03T10:43:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T18:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=11260"},"modified":"2012-03-03T10:43:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T18:43:53","slug":"news-brief-meet-new-fire-chief-fire-crew-today-at-district-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=11260","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Meet new fire chief, fire crew today at District 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chehalis&#8217;s rural fire district not only has a new chief, they&#8217;ve hired five firefighter-EMTs.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first time ever Lewis County Fire District 6 has had paid staff, other than its chief, according to the Chief Tim Kinder.<\/p>\n<p>Kinder, 49, took the position in mid-December and he, along with the new career firefighters are being introduced to the community at an open house at 1:15 p.m. today.<\/p>\n<p>The gathering runs from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. The location is the main station at 2123 Jackson Highway, Chehalis.<\/p>\n<p>Light refreshments and beverages will be served.<\/p>\n<p>Kinder has been a paramedic for 27 years, and has been with the department as a firefighter-paramedic for 10 years. He replaced Bud Goodwillie who resigned a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioners chose Kinder after a nationwide search.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve actually gone from a predominantly volunteer department to a &#8220;combination&#8221; department, Kinder said.<\/p>\n<p>All at one time.<\/p>\n<p>They currently have 25 volunteer members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter Chehalis&#8217;s rural fire district not only has a new chief, they&#8217;ve hired five firefighter-EMTs. It&#8217;s the first time ever Lewis County Fire District 6 has had paid staff, other than its chief, according to the Chief Tim Kinder. Kinder, 49, took the position in mid-December and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-11260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11263,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11260\/revisions\/11263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}