{"id":559212,"date":"2016-11-18T10:49:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T16:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=559212"},"modified":"2016-11-20T15:02:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T21:02:59","slug":"new-fire-chief-welcomed-with-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=559212","title":{"rendered":"New Fire Chief Welcomed with Reception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/09\/David-Coble.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/09\/David-Coble-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"david-coble\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-538840\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Tyler&#8217;s new fire chief, David Coble, was treated to a Rose Garden Center reception Thursday evening by the Tyler-based Empowerment Community Development Corporation.  Coble, rounding out his second week on the job, says he likes the way things have gone so far.  He says, &#8220;The people here are so nice&#8230;Everyone that I run into on the street&#8230;whether I&#8217;m in uniform or not&#8230;always a bright smile, and people always welcome me.  It feels like home to me.&#8221;  As for the fire department, Coble adds, &#8220;I have a great command staff, a bunch of great firefighters that have servant hearts &#8212; and they are&#8230;ready to take care of any of the city&#8217;s problems every day.&#8221;<!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Coble says safety is one of his top priorities as fire chief.   He says he wants to &#8220;make sure that everything we&#8217;re doing is safe operations.&#8221;  The new chief adds, &#8220;I like to double check and make sure that the men and women out there on the streets have the tools that they need to do their job.&#8221;   Coble recently moved from Fort Worth, replacing the retired Tim Johnson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Tyler&#8217;s new fire chief, David Coble, was treated to a Rose Garden Center reception Thursday evening by the Tyler-based Empowerment Community Development Corporation. Coble, rounding out his second week on the job, says he likes the way things have gone so far. He says, &#8220;The people here are so nice&#8230;Everyone that I run &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=559212\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Fire Chief Welcomed with Reception<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":538840,"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-559212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 06:39:26","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\/559212","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=559212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559213,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559212\/revisions\/559213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/538840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}