{"id":1437731,"date":"2025-08-28T03:10:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1437731"},"modified":"2025-08-29T09:28:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T14:28:18","slug":"kilgore-fire-department-names-new-fire-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1437731","title":{"rendered":"Kilgore Fire Department names new fire chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/08\/2025-08-28_031033.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"197\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1437732\" \/>KILGORE \u2014 The Kilgore Fire Department has named Ryan Riley its new fire chief according to our news partner KETK. Riley has been a firefighter since 1987, beginning his career as a volunteer in New London. He has been a member of the Kilgore Fire Department since 2017, serving as the rescue chief, emergency management coordinator and fire marshal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis leadership and dedication have been invaluable to our community,\u201d the City of Kilgore said.<\/p>\n<p>Riley will be replacing former Kilgore Fire Chief Mark Henderson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KILGORE \u2014 The Kilgore Fire Department has named Ryan Riley its new fire chief according to our news partner KETK. Riley has been a firefighter since 1987, beginning his career as a volunteer in New London. He has been a member of the Kilgore Fire Department since 2017, serving as the rescue chief, emergency management &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1437731\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kilgore Fire Department names new fire chief<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1437998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/08\/2025-08-28_031033.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1437731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 10:23:05","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\/08\/2025-08-28_031033.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437731","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=1437731"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438163,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437731\/revisions\/1438163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1437998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1437731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1437731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1437731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}