{"id":1388264,"date":"2025-02-05T06:41:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T12:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1388264"},"modified":"2025-02-06T03:32:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T09:32:39","slug":"smith-county-commissioner-court-honors-fallen-firefighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1388264","title":{"rendered":"Smith County Commissioner Court honors fallen firefighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1388265\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/02\/scmemorialhwy-225x174.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/02\/scmemorialhwy-225x174.png 225w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/02\/scmemorialhwy-452x350.png 452w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/02\/scmemorialhwy.png 492w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; The Smith County Commissioners voted on Tuesday afternoon to honor the memory of two firefighters who were killed in the line of duty while battling a house fire in 2007. According to our news partner KETK, the court voted to rename a portion of FM 2493, or Old Jacksonville, as the \u201cCaptain Kevin Williams and Firefighter Austin Cheek Memorial Highway\u201d in memory of the two firefighter who died after responding to a house fire. During the meeting Council member Neal Franklin reflected on the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a tough time in the fire service and a tough time for everybody. It brings back some hard moments but we are here to honor those individuals today,\u201d Franklin said.<\/p>\n<p>The Noonday Volunteer Fire Department crew, including Williams and Cheek, responded to a house fire located at 20188 FM 2493 on Aug. 3, 2007 at around 1:35 a.m.<!--more--> Once they arrived, firefighters entered into the burning building, and according to the State Fire Marshal\u2019s office, Williams and Cheek were overcome by the conditions and were rescued by rapid Intervention Crews.<\/p>\n<p>Both men were taken to a local hospital where they died due to smoke inhalation and thermal injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; The Smith County Commissioners voted on Tuesday afternoon to honor the memory of two firefighters who were killed in the line of duty while battling a house fire in 2007. According to our news partner KETK, the court voted to rename a portion of FM 2493, or Old Jacksonville, as the \u201cCaptain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1388264\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County Commissioner Court honors fallen firefighters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1388266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/02\/scmemorialhwy-225x174.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 06:25:51","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\/2025\/02\/scmemorialhwy-225x174.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388264","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=1388264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1388268,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388264\/revisions\/1388268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1388266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1388264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1388264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1388264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}