{"id":662,"date":"2008-12-11T15:28:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T23:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=662"},"modified":"2009-01-22T14:47:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T22:47:48","slug":"mlk-anniversary-press-conference-at-lbfd-station-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King Anniversary Press Conference at LBFD Station Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/link.brightcove.com\/services\/link\/bcpid1631252024\/bctid4599824001\">Watch Press conference on fire safety<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This morning at 11:30am the press conference\u00a0for the anniversary of the 3 little girls who lost their lives in the tragic fire last year was held at Long Beach Fire Department Station 10. The Engine,Rescue and Battalion Chief from that station, along with\u00a0the Fire Marshal, Arson investigator\u00a0and Public Information\/education Officers\u00a0were joined by Mayor Bob Foster, Council member Dee Andrews, and a spokes person\u00a0from\u00a0 Code Enforcement to give a brief reminder about Fire safety around the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Reporters from Channel 2, 7, 9 as well as the Press Telegram were on hand to video and ask questions. Mayor Foster spoke about the importance of having working\u00a0Smoke Detectors in every home. Mr. Andrews addressed the importance of heating equipment as well as there location to and around combustible materials.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Chief Mike Garcia, the city&#8217;s Fire Marshal, reemphasized the Mayors talk on how important Smoke Detectors are and that they are inexpensive and do save lives. Chief Garcia mentioned that LBFD stations will give 2 free Smoke Detectors to\u00a0members of the community \u00a0who cannot afford them, by visiting their local fire station. Chief Garcia also said that its every one&#8217;s job to be more attentive when it comes to candles, cooking and especially the Christmas trees, and not letting them dry out.<\/p>\n<p>Angela Reynolds from the Code Enforcement Bureau said that there are over 600 possible garage conversions in the city and that over 400 of those are illegally converted. She gave a phone number\u00a0to call and report if someone has an illegal conversion, and that number is 562-570-CODE. You can leave the address and someone will be out within a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Press conference on fire safety This morning at 11:30am the press conference\u00a0for the anniversary of the 3 little girls who lost their lives in the tragic fire last year was held at Long Beach Fire Department Station 10. The Engine,Rescue and Battalion Chief from that station, along with\u00a0the Fire Marshal, Arson investigator\u00a0and Public Information\/education [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}