{"id":725,"date":"2022-08-03T11:41:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T15:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/?p=725"},"modified":"2022-08-03T11:41:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T15:41:23","slug":"retirement-announcement-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/retirement-announcement-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Retirement Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Columbus Fire Department Retirement Announcement<\/p>\n<p>The Columbus Fire Department (CFD) announces the retirement of Battalion Chief Terry Whitis, a 33 year veteran of the department. Battalion Chief Whitis joined the Columbus Fire Department in 1989. During his career, Battalion Chief Whitis rose through the ranks; earning officer promotions to Sergeant, Lieutenant and Captain before being promoted to Battalion Chief in 2016. Whitis is a state certified Paramedic and Hazardous Materials Technician. \u00a0Battalion Chief Whitis retires from his current post at fire station # 1 as the highest ranking officer of Battalion A. Battalion Chief Whitis\u2019 official retirement date is Friday, August 5, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbus Fire Department Retirement Announcement The Columbus Fire Department (CFD) announces the retirement of Battalion Chief Terry Whitis, a 33 year veteran of the department. Battalion Chief Whitis joined the Columbus Fire Department in 1989. During his career, Battalion Chief Whitis rose through the ranks; earning officer promotions to Sergeant, Lieutenant and Captain before being  [&#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-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 15:09:56","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\/725","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=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}