{"id":8355,"date":"2026-04-07T19:27:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/firefighters-raise-50k-for-cancer-charity\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T19:27:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:27:35","slug":"firefighters-raise-50k-for-cancer-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/firefighters-raise-50k-for-cancer-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters raise $50K for cancer charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"162\" data-end=\"411\">On March 28, Columbia&rsquo;s annual Fire Truck Pull raised approximately $50,000 to support pediatric cancer research. The event was organized by <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Curing Kids Cancer<\/span><\/span>, a national nonprofit dedicated to funding cures for childhood cancer.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"413\" data-end=\"540\">The <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Columbia-Richland Fire Department<\/span><\/span> provided fire engines and personnel for the event, which featured 27 competing teams.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"542\" data-end=\"769\">Members of the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Irmo Fire District<\/span><\/span> claimed the top prize for fastest pull time. Competing as &ldquo;Irmo Fire Strongmen Pulling for Logan,&rdquo; the team pulled a fire engine down a stretch of road in just 17.68 seconds.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"771\" data-end=\"879\">All proceeds from the event will benefit pediatric cancer research at <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Prisma Health Children&rsquo;s Hospital-Midlands<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 28, Columbia&rsquo;s annual Fire Truck Pull raised approximately $50,000 to support pediatric cancer research. The event was organized by Curing Kids Cancer, a national nonprofit dedicated to funding cures for childhood cancer. The Columbia-Richland Fire Department provided fire engines and personnel for the event, which featured 27 competing<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/firefighters-raise-50k-for-cancer-charity\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44],"tags":[1284,1285],"class_list":["entry","author-john-griggs","post-8355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-public-safety","tag-columbia-fire","tag-fire-truck-pull"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gpstrianglenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tow-the-Truck_2026_630x350.jpg?fit=630%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}