{"id":407,"date":"2020-03-03T12:04:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T17:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/?p=407"},"modified":"2020-03-03T12:04:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T17:04:27","slug":"cfd-sworn-firefighter-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/cfd-sworn-firefighter-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"CFD Sworn Firefighter Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Columbus Fire Department announces the hiring of Firefighter Travis Quillen.\u00a0Quillen was sworn in by Columbus Mayor, James Lienhoop, at Tuesday\u2019s Board of Public Works and Safety meeting, held at the Fair Oaks Mall. Quillen will under-go a fire department familiarization training program. After completing this training, Quillen will receive a shift and station assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Quillen, 35, is a 2003 Graduate of Seymour High School. Quillen is a 2007 Graduate of Purdue University and holds a Bachelor\u2019s of Science Degree in Building Construction Management. \u00a0He joins the Columbus Fire Department with 6 years of firefighting experience with the Hamilton Township Volunteer Fire Department in Jackson County.\u00a0 In addition to being certified as an EMT- Basic and Firefighter I &amp;II, Quillen is also a Stop the Bleed Instructor.<\/p>\n<p>With the hiring of Quillen, the Columbus Fire Department is currently at the department\u2019s full staffing of 95 sworn firefighters.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/DSC_0426-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/DSC_0426-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/DSC_0426-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/DSC_0426-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/DSC_0426-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/DSC_0426-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/DSC_0426-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/DSC_0426-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/DSC_0426-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/DSC_0426-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/DSC_0426-scaled.jpg 2560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Columbus Fire Department announces the hiring of Firefighter Travis Quillen.\u00a0Quillen was sworn in by Columbus Mayor, James Lienhoop, at Tuesday\u2019s Board of Public Works and Safety meeting, held at the Fair Oaks Mall. Quillen will under-go a fire department familiarization training program. After completing this training, Quillen will receive a shift and station assignment.  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 09:34:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}