{"id":5878,"date":"2015-11-20T09:45:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T14:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=5878"},"modified":"2015-11-20T09:45:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T14:45:25","slug":"county-graduates-26-new-firefighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=5878","title":{"rendered":"County graduates 26 new firefighters"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Fall-2015-FFI-Graduation\"<\/a>

West Chester Fire Department Chaplain Jerry Schwartz speaks with the graduates during Thursday’s ceremony.<\/p><\/div>\n

COATESVILLE \u00a0\u2013 Chester <\/span>County Department<\/span> of Emergency Services, Fire Services<\/span> Division,<\/span> held graduation<\/span> for <\/span>the Spring 2015 Firefighter <\/span>I class.\u00a0 <\/span>Twenty-six graduates<\/span> were given <\/span>their certification<\/span> at<\/span> a ceremony that<\/span> was held<\/span> at<\/span> the Wagontown Fire <\/span>Company on Thursday<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Family, friends<\/span> and fire <\/span>company officials<\/span> were <\/span>on hand<\/span> to witness<\/span> the graduation<\/span> and<\/span> certification recognition.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Chaplain<\/span> Jerry Schwartz,<\/span> retired<\/span> Captain of the Baltimore <\/span>City Fire Department and Chaplain<\/span> and<\/span> Safety Officer <\/span>for the West Chester Fire Department<\/span> was the guest<\/span> speaker for <\/span>the ceremony.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

He said<\/span> to the graduates, \u201cKnow who you<\/span> are?<\/span> You<\/span> are <\/span>a\u00a0firefighter.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Jun Oh<\/span> Yoon,<\/span> Fame Fire Company,<\/span> was chosen<\/span> by <\/span>his classmates<\/span> as<\/span> the Class Spokesperson. Director <\/span>Robert Kagel,<\/span> Deputy Director for Fire Services,<\/span> George \u201cBeau\u201d Crowding,<\/span> and Fire Training <\/span>Coordinator Jeff Groves<\/span> from the Department<\/span> of Emergency Services<\/span> and<\/span> Chaplain Schwartz presented<\/span> the graduates<\/span> with<\/span> their certificates.<\/span> Lead<\/span> Fire Instructor <\/span>John DeMarco<\/span> led<\/span> the graduates<\/span> in Administration<\/span> of the Firefighter <\/span>Oath.<\/p>\n

The following are the<\/span>\u00a0firefighter g<\/span>raduates and their respective fire companies:<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeremy Adamoski \u00a0\u2014 Modena Fire <\/span>Company<\/p>\n

Henry Busby \u2014 \u00a0Wagontown<\/span> Fire <\/span>Company<\/p>\n

Matthew Cohen \u2014 Fame Fire <\/span>Company<\/p>\n

Matthew Coonce \u2014 Wagontown<\/span> Fire <\/span>Company<\/p>\n

Zach<\/span> Coonce \u2014 Wagontown<\/span> Fire <\/span>Company<\/p>\n

Matthew Crockett \u2014 Keystone <\/span>Valley Fire Department <\/span><\/p>\n

David<\/span> Gledhill \u2014 East<\/span> Brandywine Fire <\/span>Company<\/p>\n

Joseph Greene \u2014 Birdsboro<\/span> Union Fire <\/span>Company<\/p>\n

Andrew <\/span>Hilferty \u2014\u00a0Limerick<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Fire <\/span>Company<\/p>\n

DeAndre <\/span>Johnson \u2014 West Bradford<\/span> Fire <\/span>Company<\/p>\n

Joshua Jones \u2014\u00a0Keystone <\/span>Valley Fire Department<\/span><\/p>\n

Ryan Large \u2014 Po-Mar-Lin<\/span> Fire <\/span>Company<\/p>\n

Matthew Lewis \u2014 Blue Rock Fire <\/span>Rescue Company<\/p>\n

Michael Lomax \u2014 Goshen<\/span> Fire <\/span>Company<\/p>\n

Luke <\/span>Mellon \u2014\u00a0Wagontown<\/span> Fire <\/span>Company<\/p>\n

Benjamin<\/span> Mucha \u2014\u00a0East<\/span> Brandywine Fire <\/span>Company<\/p>\n

Dennis<\/span> Nunan \u2014 Radnor Fire <\/span>Company<\/p>\n

Gabriel<\/span> Pepper \u2014\u00a0Longwood Fire <\/span>Company<\/p>\n

Nick<\/span> Proko \u2014 East<\/span> Brandywine Fire <\/span>Company<\/p>\n

Aidan<\/span> Raymond \u2014 East<\/span> Brandywine Fire <\/span>Company<\/p>\n

Paul<\/span> Rullo \u2014\u00a0Modena Fire <\/span>Company<\/p>\n

Kimberly Siegel \u2014 Longwood Fire <\/span>Company<\/p>\n

Joshua Smith \u2014 Minquas<\/span> Fire <\/span>Company<\/p>\n

Craig Soden \u2014 Ludwigs<\/span> Corner Fire <\/span>Company<\/p>\n

Scott<\/span> Vanina \u2014 Limerick<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Fire <\/span>Company<\/p>\n

Jun Oh<\/span> Yoon \u2014 Fame Fire <\/span>Company<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

COATESVILLE \u00a0\u2013 Chester County Department of Emergency Services, Fire Services Division, held graduation for the Spring 2015 Firefighter I class.\u00a0 Twenty-six graduates were given their certification at a ceremony that was held at the Wagontown Fire Company on Thursday. Family, friends and fire company officials were on hand to witness the graduation and certification recognition.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[549,3668,1423],"class_list":["post-5878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chester-county-emergency-services","tag-firefighters","tag-graduation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}