{"id":1425655,"date":"2025-07-12T10:18:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T15:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1425655"},"modified":"2025-10-14T03:06:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:06:03","slug":"chief-of-canton-fire-department-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1425655","title":{"rendered":"Chief of Canton Fire Department announces retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/2025-07-12_101837-199x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1425656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/2025-07-12_101837-199x200.jpg 199w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/2025-07-12_101837.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/>CANTON\u2013 After serving for the past 15 years as the chief of the City of Canton Fire Rescue, Bud Sandford announced his retirement on Friday according to our news partner KETK.<\/p>\n<p>Through his 15 years as chief, Sandford has been instrumental in growing the fire department from mostly a team of volunteers to a team of mostly career firefighters. \u201cHe will be greatly missed by all the men and women who\u2019ve had the honor to serve alongside him,\u201d City of Canton Fire Rescue said. \u201cThanks to the solid foundation he\u2019s laid, we\u2019re ready to keep growing and advancing into the future!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CANTON\u2013 After serving for the past 15 years as the chief of the City of Canton Fire Rescue, Bud Sandford announced his retirement on Friday according to our news partner KETK. Through his 15 years as chief, Sandford has been instrumental in growing the fire department from mostly a team of volunteers to a team &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1425655\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chief of Canton Fire Department announces retirement<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1426013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/2025-07-12_101837-199x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1425655","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 14:25:34","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\/07\/2025-07-12_101837-199x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425655","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1425655"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449072,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425655\/revisions\/1449072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1426013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1425655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1425655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1425655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}