{"id":1262997,"date":"2023-09-27T16:30:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T21:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1262997"},"modified":"2023-09-29T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:52:10","slug":"hooton-named-new-tyler-fire-marshal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1262997","title":{"rendered":"Hooton named new Tyler Fire Marshal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1262998\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/09\/blobid0_1695830725904-200x113.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/09\/blobid0_1695830725904-200x113.webp 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/09\/blobid0_1695830725904-550x310.webp 550w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/09\/blobid0_1695830725904-175x98.webp 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/09\/blobid0_1695830725904-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/09\/blobid0_1695830725904.webp 876w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>TYLER &#8212; The Tyler City Council approved the appointment of a new fire marshal Wednesday morning. Our news partners at KETK report that the council unanimously voted to approve Joey Hooton for the job, a man with nearly 20 years of experience. He has served on the Command Staff for the last six years and recently earned a master\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s degree from UT Tyler in public administration, Tyler Fire Chief David Coble said.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Chief Hooton has decided he wants to expand his horizon to be more rounded in his fire service career, so he wanted to move over to this fire marshal position for those reasons,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Coble said.<\/p>\n<p>Hooton holds certifications through the Texas Commission on Fire Protection as a Master Firefighter, Fire Service Instructor, Fire Officer IV, Emergency Vehicle Technician, and Rope Rescue Technician.<\/p>\n<p>Coble also thanked Brandon Davis, who served as interim fire marshal. After the vote, Mayor Don Warren spoke to Hooton.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Joey, I want to tell you, I think this is a fabulous choice,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Warren said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m excited for you, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad your wife\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s here. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a big deal and you deserve it, so thank you.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Warren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s comment was followed by applause from the room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The Tyler City Council approved the appointment of a new fire marshal Wednesday morning. Our news partners at KETK report that the council unanimously voted to approve Joey Hooton for the job, a man with nearly 20 years of experience. He has served on the Command Staff for the last six years and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1262997\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hooton named new Tyler Fire Marshal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1263001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/09\/blobid0_1695830725904-200x113.webp","fifu_image_alt":"Hooton named new Tyler Fire Marshal","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 16:13:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/09\/blobid0_1695830725904-200x113.webp","fifu_image_alt":"Hooton named new Tyler Fire Marshal","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1262997"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263356,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262997\/revisions\/1263356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1263001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1262997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1262997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1262997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}