{"id":1855,"date":"2009-11-10T09:49:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T17:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2009-11-10T10:53:26","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T18:53:26","slug":"veterans-day-parade-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=1855","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Day Parade 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>On the morning of November 7, 2009, members from the Long Beach Fire Department again participated in the annual Veteran\u2019s Day Parade in North Long Beach.\u00a0 Units in attendance included Engine 12, Truck 11, Lifeguard Dive 1, Lifeguard 1, as well as 3 museum rigs.\u00a0 City council members Andrews, Schipske, and Lerch rode aboard the three antique fire engines that were driven by retired Long Beach firefighters from the LBFD museum.\u00a0 Carsten Sorensen was recognized as this year\u2019s assistant grand marshal of the parade.\u00a0 Carsten is assigned to Station 11 and retired from the United States Marine Corp after two tours of duty\u00a0in Iraq and one tour\u00a0\u00a0in Afghanistan.\u00a0 Captain Mike Duree and Paramedic Lewie Silva were also in attendance and rode aboard the antique Mack with councilwoman Schipske.\u00a0 Mike served with the United States Marine Corps during Desert Storm and Lewie served with the US Air force during the rescue attempt of American hostages in Iran during the early 80\u2019s.\u00a0 This year\u2019s parade was well attended by veterans from all branches of the military and hundreds who came out to thank those who served.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the morning of November 7, 2009, members from the Long Beach Fire Department again participated in the annual Veteran\u2019s Day Parade in North Long Beach.\u00a0 Units in attendance included Engine 12, Truck 11, Lifeguard Dive 1, Lifeguard 1, as well as 3 museum rigs.\u00a0 City council members Andrews, Schipske, and Lerch rode aboard the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1860,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}