{"id":5293,"date":"2016-08-25T12:25:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T12:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/?p=5293"},"modified":"2016-08-25T12:25:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T12:25:07","slug":"nash-community-college-recognizes-fire-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/2016\/08\/nash-community-college-recognizes-fire-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"Nash Community College Recognizes Fire Graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under the motto of &#8220;When You Walk Through Fire You Will Not Be Burned&#8221; Nash Community College\u00a0Recruit Firefighter Class #021516 graduated in Brown Auditorium at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, August 17. The ceremony began with a\u00a0processional and a presentation of colors by Rocky Mount Fire Department Honor Guard\u00a0followed by a welcome given by Nash Community College President, Dr. Bill\u00a0Carver. Graduates\u00a0were recognized for completing the program which is designed to provide individuals and firefighters the information and skills needed for modern firefighting through a variety of learning experiences and training scenarios. These classes are often taken directly to firefighters through training sessions held in local departments and at training sites throughout the community.<\/p>\n<p>The guest speaker for the ceremony was Nashville Fire Department Chief Randy Goodbrod. &#8220;Today is a celebration for everybody involved,&#8221; began Goodbrod. He explained how the cadets had reached the end of their entry level training\u00a0and were now ready to begin a career in a profession that dates\u00a0back to 115 B.C. Chief Goodbrod reminded cadets to be active in their continued training to become a better firefighter and part of a team.\u00a0&#8220;The only way this can happen is if each of you remember what you were taught, practice what you were taught, practice it again, and again, and again until you can&#8217;t get it wrong,&#8221; said Chief Goodbrod.<\/p>\n<p>John Winstead, Nash Community College Fire\u00a0&amp; Health Services Director\u00a0presented the graduates with badges and certificates.\u00a0<em>Graduates pictured from left: Catherine Harrison and Lamonte Overton Blue, Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC_0810.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5285\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC_0810-532x1024.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0810\" width=\"532\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC_0810-532x1024.jpg 532w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC_0810-78x150.jpg 78w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC_0810-156x300.jpg 156w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the motto of &#8220;When You Walk Through Fire You Will Not Be Burned&#8221; Nash Community College\u00a0Recruit Firefighter Class #021516 graduated in Brown Auditorium at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, August&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/2016\/08\/nash-community-college-recognizes-fire-graduates\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5293"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5299,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions\/5299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}