{"id":17415,"date":"2013-02-24T15:29:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T23:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=17415"},"modified":"2013-02-24T15:29:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T23:29:42","slug":"news-brief-five-promoted-at-rural-chehalis-fire-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=17415","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Five promoted at rural Chehalis fire department"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17414\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013.0221.dist6_.probationover.trim_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17414\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17414\" title=\"Newly promoted District 6 firefighters\" src=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013.0221.dist6_.probationover.trim_2.jpg\" alt=\"2013.0221.dist6.probationover.trim_2\" width=\"400\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013.0221.dist6_.probationover.trim_2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013.0221.dist6_.probationover.trim_2-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17414\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lewis County Fire District 6 celebrated the end of probation for its full time firefighters<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Lewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CHEHALIS \u2013 Five individuals have been promoted to firefighter from probationary firefighter at Lewis County Fire District 6.<\/p>\n<p>A badge pinning ceremony was held at the rural Chehalis fire station on Jackson Highway on Feb. 16, where Chief Tim Kinder administered the firefighter oath, assisted by Assistant Chief Pat Smith and Deputy Chief Steve Lux, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Offering encouragement and congratulations before an audience of family and friends were the district&#8217;s first chief Noel Cole, the president of the Lewis County Fire Chief&#8217;s Association Gregg Peterson and former District 6 Commissioner Greg Pulver, according to Kinder.<\/p>\n<p>The fire district last March introduced to the community its five newly hired paid firefighters when it was transformed from an predominantly volunteer department to a &#8220;combination&#8221; department.<\/p>\n<p>Those promoted were :<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Matt McCoy Firefighter-Paramedic<br \/>\n\u2022 Greg Folwell Firefighter-EMT<br \/>\n\u2022 Kyle Eiswald Firefighter-EMT<br \/>\n\u2022 Mike Goodwillie Firefighter-EMT<br \/>\n\u2022 Matt Foley Firefighter-EMT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter CHEHALIS \u2013 Five individuals have been promoted to firefighter from probationary firefighter at Lewis County Fire District 6. A badge pinning ceremony was held at the rural Chehalis fire station on Jackson Highway on Feb. 16, where Chief Tim Kinder administered the firefighter oath, assisted by [&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-17415","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\/17415","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=17415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17417,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17415\/revisions\/17417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}