{"id":235993,"date":"2021-10-02T11:21:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T16:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=235993"},"modified":"2021-10-03T19:59:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T00:59:35","slug":"flags-to-half-staff-sun-oct-3-honor-fallen-firefighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=235993","title":{"rendered":"Flags To Half Staff Sun. Oct. 3, Honor Fallen Firefighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bismarck<strong>\u00a0<\/strong> (OCT. 2, 2021) \u2013 Gov. Doug Burgum has directed all government agencies to fly the United States and North Dakota flags at half-staff on Sunday, Oct. 3, and encourages North Dakotans to do the same at their homes and businesses, in honor of the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service and Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend in North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>The governor\u2019s directive is in accordance with North Dakota Century Code and a <a href=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/f620288bb41dd81f9c715ef4d\/files\/0976d636-a34e-ddf1-587f-9841e07855e8\/FIRE_PREVENTION_WEEK_PROCLAMATION.pdf\">proclamation<\/a> issued by President Joe Biden, who has proclaimed Oct. 3-9 as Fire Prevention Week. Burgum has proclaimed Oct. 2-3 as Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend in North Dakota, noting that volunteer and career firefighters place themselves in harm\u2019s way to protect the lives and property of North Dakotans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorth Dakotans extend their sincere appreciation and gratitude to the volunteer and career firefighters who protect our families and communities through their bravery, dedication and sacrifice,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.nd.gov\/sites\/www\/files\/documents\/proclamations\/Fallen%20Firefighters%20Memorial%20Weekend%202021.pdf\">proclamation<\/a> states.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The President has called on Americans to participate in the observance of the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service with appropriate programs and activities and by renewing their efforts to prevent fires and their tragic consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bismarck\u00a0 (OCT. 2, 2021) \u2013 Gov. Doug Burgum has directed all government agencies to fly the United States and North Dakota flags at half-staff on Sunday, Oct. 3, and encourages North Dakotans to do the same at their homes and businesses, in honor of the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235994,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235993\/revisions\/235994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}