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LONGVIEW — Tuesday morning, CHRISTUS Good Shepherd Hospital employees and patients gathered out front for a Christmas event that had been paused for the last few years. According to our news partner KETK, Longview SWAT, including a Blue Santa, rappelled down the side of the hospital for all to see. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153[It] brings the city together, shows the police department and fire can all work together and all make the city better,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Lyle Potter, a Longview Police Department Patrol Officer. Fittingly named Operation Christmas Cheer, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a way to bring the holiday spirit to those who spend a lot of time in the hospital. Once they land, the SWAT team hands out gifts and candy canes. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is the first time they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done it since 2019, so I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s especially important today,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Todd Hancock, CEO of CHRISTUS Good Shepherd Health System.<\/p>\n
Hancock shares how it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a tradition for 15-20 years, but because of COVID and bad weather, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a while since they last came together for the event. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our police and our first responders come and show off their skills here in front of the children, especially those that are in the hospital,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Hancock. They aim to spread the joy of the holiday season with every patient and other first responders.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Really good to go to their elements and getting right there with them, so they can feel the meaning of Christmas just as well as we can out here,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Potter.<\/p>\n
Some community members also stopped by to watch Longview SWAT, cheer them on and enjoy hot cocoa and Christmas music, taking this opportunity to show young children how awesome their local superheroes truly are.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It really underscores something that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very important, that is that police are the good guys and I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s special for the kids to see that,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Hancock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LONGVIEW — Tuesday morning, CHRISTUS Good Shepherd Hospital employees and patients gathered out front for a Christmas event that had been paused for the last few years. According to our news partner KETK, Longview SWAT, including a Blue Santa, rappelled down the side of the hospital for all to see. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153[It] brings the city together, … Continue reading SWAT brings Christmas cheer by rappelling down side of hospital<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1282249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/12\/LNGVSWATHOSP-175x115.png","fifu_image_alt":"SWAT brings Christmas cheer by rappelling down side of hospital","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1282247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 02:23:40","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\/12\/LNGVSWATHOSP-175x115.png","fifu_image_alt":"SWAT brings Christmas cheer by rappelling down side of hospital","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282247","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1282247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282250,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282247\/revisions\/1282250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1282249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1282247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1282247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1282247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}