{"id":9342,"date":"2015-02-24T09:37:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T14:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=9342"},"modified":"2015-02-24T09:37:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T14:37:21","slug":"syska-named-longwood-fd-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=9342","title":{"rendered":"Syska named Longwood FD captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_105618\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mike-Syska-Longwood-021215-300x219.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105618\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1056183\" style=\"margin: 4px; border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mike-Syska-Longwood-021215-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"Mike-Syska-Longwood-021215\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-105618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Syska of Birmingham is the new captain of Longwood Fire Company.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><em><strong>Birmingham resident has served company for a decade<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>EAST MARLBROUGH \u2014 Mike Syska has been promoted from lieutenant to captain of Longwood Fire Company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMike has provided excellent service to the fire company during the decade he has been a volunteer,\u201d said Chief A. J. McCarthy. \u201cHe has earned his promotion. Syska has been an officer at Longwood seven of his 10 years at the fire company.<\/p>\n<p>Syka said, \u201cI\u2019ve had good experiences here and I like to give back to the community through service with Longwood.\u201d Syka has been involved in water rescues during the most recent flooding in the area and has also taken part in multiple vehicle rescues.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Syka, who lives in Birmingham, said while in high school some of his friends were affiliated with Longwood and he believed he could be of assistance. \u201cI went to Penn State for information technology but I discovered what I liked was the fire company and being an EMT. I then took nursing classes.\u201d<\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham resident has served company for a decade EAST MARLBROUGH \u2014 Mike Syska has been promoted from lieutenant to captain of Longwood Fire Company. \u201cMike has provided excellent service to the fire company during the decade he has been a volunteer,\u201d said Chief A. J. McCarthy. \u201cHe has earned his promotion. Syska has been an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[708,5469],"class_list":["post-9342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-longwood-fire-company","tag-mike-syska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9342","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=9342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9343,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9342\/revisions\/9343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}