{"id":2508,"date":"2010-11-06T14:37:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T22:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=2508"},"modified":"2010-11-06T14:37:53","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T22:37:53","slug":"veterans-day-parade-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=2508","title":{"rendered":"Veteran&#8217;s Day Parade 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>This year marked the 14<sup>th<\/sup> annual Veteran\u2019s Day Parade in North Long Beach and once again members of the Long Beach Fire Department (LBFD) participated in the festivities.\u00a0 Units that attended the parade included Engine 11 and Truck 11, as well as three museum rigs from the LBFD museum.\u00a0 This year Firefighter Nick Kalt was recognized as one of the Honorary Grand Marshall\u2019s of the parade.\u00a0 Nick served in the United States Marine Corp. for 10 years before retiring as a Captain.\u00a0 In 2008, he was hired by the LBFD and is currently assigned to Station 13.\u00a0 Fire Chief Alan Patalano was also in attendance riding on Truck 11 with Firefighter Kalt.\u00a0 Aboard the three antique fire engines were various City Council Members as they were driven down Atlantic Blvd. by our very own retired Long Beach Firefighters.\u00a0 Numerous veterans from all branches of the military participated and hundreds of spectators were in attendance.\u00a0 Once again this year\u2019s parade was a great display of thanks and honoring to all those who have served.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year marked the 14th annual Veteran\u2019s Day Parade in North Long Beach and once again members of the Long Beach Fire Department (LBFD) participated in the festivities.\u00a0 Units that attended the parade included Engine 11 and Truck 11, as well as three museum rigs from the LBFD museum.\u00a0 This year Firefighter Nick Kalt was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2512,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions\/2512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}