{"id":1519197,"date":"2026-06-30T08:37:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1519197"},"modified":"2026-06-30T08:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:37:30","slug":"procession-planned-for-fallen-fire-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1519197","title":{"rendered":"Procession planned for fallen fire chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1518871\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/mabankfirechief-200x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>EAST TEXAS &#8212; Mabank Fire Chief Charlie Woodard was fatally struck by a pickup truck while directing traffic after the Mabank Rodeo on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Mabank Police Department, of which Woodard was also a member, a procession is expected to begin at 11 a.m. on Tuesday and will exit U.S. Highway 175 onto State Highway 198, traveling south to Mason Street.<\/p>\n<p>Woodard had served with the City of Mabank since 2018. He also worked as the community\u2019s Fire Marshal and as a Mabank Police Department officer. He was recognized as one of the city\u2019s employees of the month in Feb. 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for the overwhelming love, prayers, and support you have shown the Woodard family, Mabank Fire &amp; Rescue, and the Mabank Police Department during this difficult time,\u201d the department said.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral arrangements for Woodard will be announced in the near future, the department said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS &#8212; Mabank Fire Chief Charlie Woodard was fatally struck by a pickup truck while directing traffic after the Mabank Rodeo on Saturday. According to the Mabank Police Department, of which Woodard was also a member, a procession is expected to begin at 11 a.m. on Tuesday and will exit U.S. Highway 175 onto &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1519197\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Procession planned for fallen fire chief<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1518871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 10:52:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519197","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=1519197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519213,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519197\/revisions\/1519213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1518871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1519197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1519197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1519197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}