{"id":11122,"date":"2015-07-17T10:50:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T14:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=11122"},"modified":"2015-07-17T10:50:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T14:50:07","slug":"longwood-promotes-wells-to-lieutenant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=11122","title":{"rendered":"Longwood promotes Wells to lieutenant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1145509\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Mike-Wells-300x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1145509\" class=\"wp-image-1145509 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Mike-Wells-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mike-Wells\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1145509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longwood Fire Company&#8217;s Mike Wells seen on a recent fire call. Wells was promoted to lieutenant by the company.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 Mike Wells, this year\u2019s winner of the prestigious Jim McGovern Service Award, has been promoted to lieutenant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMike is a dedicated firefighter and has greatly contributed to the safety of our citizens by his hard work,\u201d said Longwood Fire Chief A. J. McCarthy. \u201cHe deserves the promotion to lieutenant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year Wells responded to 329 of 619 of Longwood\u2019s emergency calls. \u201cI just enjoy running calls and helping people when they need it the most,\u201d Wells said. \u201cI stopped counting the calls. If the pager goes off and I\u2019m not working, I\u2019ll be there.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Wells has been a member of Longwood for two years and has been in the fire service for a decade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father has been in the fire service for about 44 years,\u201d Wells said. \u201cI used to go to the firehouse and help clean trucks and other chores even before I was a member. I joined Longwood when I moved to East Marlborough, near the firehouse. It made sense to run at a firehouse that was only a minute away from my home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 Mike Wells, this year\u2019s winner of the prestigious Jim McGovern Service Award, has been promoted to lieutenant. \u201cMike is a dedicated firefighter and has greatly contributed to the safety of our citizens by his hard work,\u201d said Longwood Fire Chief A. J. McCarthy. \u201cHe deserves the promotion to lieutenant.\u201d Last year Wells [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[708,6152],"class_list":["post-11122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-longwood-fire-company","tag-mike-wells"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}