{"id":597,"date":"2021-09-25T18:09:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T22:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/?p=597"},"modified":"2021-09-25T18:09:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T22:09:20","slug":"light-the-night-for-fallen-firefighters-september-26-october-3-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/light-the-night-for-fallen-firefighters-september-26-october-3-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Light the Night for Fallen Firefighters &#8211; September 26 \u2013 October 3, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-598 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/09\/Robert-Stewart-bridge-Tony-Vasquez-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/09\/Robert-Stewart-bridge-Tony-Vasquez-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/09\/Robert-Stewart-bridge-Tony-Vasquez-66x66.jpg 66w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/09\/Robert-Stewart-bridge-Tony-Vasquez-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/09\/Robert-Stewart-bridge-Tony-Vasquez-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/09\/Robert-Stewart-bridge-Tony-Vasquez-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/09\/Robert-Stewart-bridge-Tony-Vasquez-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/09\/Robert-Stewart-bridge-Tony-Vasquez.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In honor of Fallen Firefighters, the City of Columbus will observe this annual event. The Robert Stewart Bridge will be illuminated red for Light the Night for Fallen Firefighters from September 26 through October 3, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Every October, the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation sponsors the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend, the official national tribute to those firefighters who died in the line of duty during the previous year. In 2017, the Foundation created Light the Night for Fallen Firefighters to recognize the 25th anniversary of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend. Since then, Light the Night for Fallen Firefighters has expanded to include fire departments and families lighting their homes in red.<\/p>\n<p>As dusk turns to dark, landmarks, homes, fire service organizations, and businesses across the country will again glow in respect from September 26 \u2013 October 3, 2021, to the fallen and their families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Fallen Firefighters, the City of Columbus will observe this annual event. The Robert Stewart Bridge will be illuminated red for Light the Night for Fallen Firefighters from September 26 through October 3, 2021. Every October, the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation sponsors the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend, the official national tribute to  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 16:07:30","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\/597","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}