{"id":419606,"date":"2015-11-17T15:45:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T21:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=419606"},"modified":"2015-11-18T15:45:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T21:45:03","slug":"first-female-fire-marshal-appointed-in-smith-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=419606","title":{"rendered":"First Female Fire Marshal Appointed in Smith County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/10\/Connie-McCoy-Wasson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/10\/Connie-McCoy-Wasson-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Connie McCoy-Wasson\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-409624\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Connie McCoy-Wasson on Tuesday became the first female appointed to serve as Smith County Fire Marshal.  According to a county news release, after interviewing five of the 13 candidates who applied for the job, the Smith County Commissioners Court voted unanimously to appoint Wasson.  She&#8217;ll fill former Fire Marshal Jay Brooks\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unexpired term through December 2016. Brooks resigned from the post in October to take a job in the private sector. McCoy-Wasson has more than 20 years of experience as a deputy fire marshal for Smith County and has served as interim fire marshal since October. According to the news release, McCoy-Wasson says she knows she has &#8220;big shoes to fill&#8221; and hopes she &#8220;can hold up the standards set before me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Connie McCoy-Wasson on Tuesday became the first female appointed to serve as Smith County Fire Marshal. According to a county news release, after interviewing five of the 13 candidates who applied for the job, the Smith County Commissioners Court voted unanimously to appoint Wasson. She&#8217;ll fill former Fire Marshal Jay Brooks\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unexpired term &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=419606\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Female Fire Marshal Appointed in Smith County<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":409624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 12:37:51","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\/419606","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419641,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419606\/revisions\/419641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/409624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}