{"id":17180,"date":"2016-10-03T14:40:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T18:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=17180"},"modified":"2016-10-03T14:40:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T18:40:47","slug":"longwood-fc-to-celebrate-95th-anniversary-with-open-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=17180","title":{"rendered":"Longwood FC to celebrate 95th anniversary with open house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LongwoodFCLogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1942\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LongwoodFCLogo-300x294.jpg\" alt=\"longwoodfclogo\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a>EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 Longwood Fire Company\u2019s annual open house is part of the organization\u2019s 95<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary celebration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLongwood has rendered great service to our neighbors for 95 years,\u201d said Chief A. J. McCarthy. \u201cWe invite everyone to join us for our open house and interact with our team.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The family-friendly event is free and open to the public on Sunday, October 16. The fire company is located at 1001 East Baltimore Pike. The open house takes place from noon until 3:00 p.m. and food and beverages will be served. A raffle will also take place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs is tradition, we will be opening our bay doors to welcome everyone to our station, and to showcase our fire apparatus, equipment, and talent for the community we serve,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cWe have a great line up of activities for all ages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The LifeNet Air Medical Chopper is scheduled to land at 12:30 p.m. and will be at the open house for two hours. A vehicle rescue demonstration using the Jaws of Life will take place at 1:30 p.m. Tours of the station will be given.<\/p>\n<p>Child identification fingerprinting will be available courteously of the Kennett Township Police Department. Also, flu shots will be provided by Walgreens. For the children, there will be face painting and glow in the dark junior fire hats just in time for Halloween.<\/p>\n<p>Longwood Fire Company has served the communities of Kennett, East Marlborough, Pennsbury and Pocopson townships since 1921. Longwood Fire Company provides fire and rescue and emergency medical services 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. For more information see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longwoodfireco.com\">www.longwoodfireco.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 Longwood Fire Company\u2019s annual open house is part of the organization\u2019s 95th anniversary celebration. \u201cLongwood has rendered great service to our neighbors for 95 years,\u201d said Chief A. J. McCarthy. \u201cWe invite everyone to join us for our open house and interact with our team.\u201d &nbsp;&nbsp; Send article as PDF &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[708,910],"class_list":["post-17180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-longwood-fire-company","tag-open-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17180","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=17180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17181,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17180\/revisions\/17181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}