{"id":604603,"date":"2017-04-08T21:19:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T02:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=604603"},"modified":"2017-04-10T11:34:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T16:34:08","slug":"tyler-firemen-honored-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=604603","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Firemen Honored"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>TYLER – The Tyler Fire Department held its Twenty-Sixth Annual Awards Banquet Saturday night at the Tyler Rose Garden Center. During the ceremony, firefighters, along with retired firefighters and civilians were honored for their actions and service to the City of Tyler. Additionally, firefighters receiving promotions over the past year were also recognized. Among the awards that were handed out; Firefighter of the Year Award went to Driver\/Engineer Damon Daugherty<\/p>\n

Other awards included:
\nOutstanding District Award:
\nDistrict 1 A-Shift, led by District Chief Joey Wiggins<\/p>\n

Leadership Awards:
\nAssistant Chief Les Schminkey
\nDistrict Chief Joey Wiggins<\/p>\n

Civilian First Response Award:
\nKeisha Golden<\/p>\n

Lifesaving Awards:
\nDriver\/Engineer Jay McClung, Firefighter Lucas Terry, Firefighter Will McElroy,
\nFirefighter Ryan Biggers, and Firefighter Eric Rozell
\nETMC \u00e2\u20ac\u201c EMS: Kevin Arnold and Ben Ellis<\/p>\n

Teamwork Award:
\nFirefighter Matt Ford: For Service Above and Beyond
\nNathan Adams, David Admire, Jr., Greg Allen, Josh Brannen, Dee Davis, Adam Dixon, Paul Findley, Jeff Hudgens, Marty Lawrence, Daniel Ledkins, Jim Mullicane, Les Schminkey, Hal Walker and Jason Wright<\/p>\n

Legends Awards:
\nCaptain Mike Willis \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Hired on June 1, 1978. Retired on June 1, 2009, with 31 years of service to the City of Tyler.
\nCaptain Narwin Gaby \u00e2\u20ac\u201cHired on March 1, 1982. Retired on March 16, 2013, with over 31 years of service to the City of Tyler.
\nCaptain Mickey Haisten \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Hired on August 15, 1985. Retired on January 2, 2014, with over 28 years of service to the City of Tyler.
\nDriver\/Engineer Mark Hockman \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Hired on May 27, 1987. Retired on December 31, 2016, with almost 30 years of service to the City of Tyler.<\/p>\n

Customer Service Awards:
\nCaptain Kelly Shirley, Firefighter Devin Myers, Firefighter James Branch and Firefighter Chris Mahler<\/p>\n

Community Service Award:
\nFirefighter Lynn Statham<\/p>\n

Incident Safety Award:
\nCaptain Kelly Shirley<\/p>\n

Friend of the Department Award:
\nChris Simons<\/p>\n

Promotions:
\nAsst. Fire Chief
\nMike Frost
\nLes Schminkey<\/p>\n

District Chief
\nDavid Admire Jr.
\nDavid Hickey<\/p>\n

Captain:
\nJeremy Driver
\nShawn Hatton
\nRonnie Hunt
\nJimmie Morgan
\nZack Powers
\nJeff Tucker
\nJamey Watson<\/p>\n

Driver\/Engineer
\nDaniel Baker
\nJaryd Bedford
\nJohn Brown
\nGreg Crenshaw
\nMatt Hazel
\nLogan Luttrell
\nJay McClung
\nDrew McCuistion
\nChris Potts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER – The Tyler Fire Department held its Twenty-Sixth Annual Awards Banquet Saturday night at the Tyler Rose Garden Center. During the ceremony, firefighters, along with retired firefighters and civilians were honored for their actions and service to the City of Tyler. Additionally, firefighters receiving promotions over the past year were also recognized. Among the … Continue reading Tyler Firemen Honored<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":604604,"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-604603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 23:35:23","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\/604603","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=604603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604606,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604603\/revisions\/604606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/604604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}