{"id":152577,"date":"2023-05-08T16:45:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T20:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=152577"},"modified":"2023-05-09T09:44:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T13:44:56","slug":"new-award-honours-memory-of-three-former-campbells-bay-litchfield-firefighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/new-award-honours-memory-of-three-former-campbells-bay-litchfield-firefighters\/","title":{"rendered":"New award honours memory of three former Campbell&#8217;s Bay-Litchfield firefighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Campbell's Bay-Litchfield Fire Department unveiled a new award in memory of three of their comrades who passed away in recent years. The award was presented at the organization's\u00a0annual ball on Saturday May 6.<\/p>\n<p>The Firefighter of the Year award goes to a promising young member of the department with less than 10 years of service, and was named in memory of Keith Racine, Todd \"T.J.\" Vibert Jr. and Maurice Beauregard. Racine, a captain and veteran of the department for 32 years, passed away from cancer in 2019. Vibert Jr. served for 5 years and died in a car accident in 2020 at the age of 23. Beauregard, the former mayor of Campbell's Bay as well as a lieutenant and 15-year member of the department passed away in 2022 from cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Kevin Kluke and assistant chief Gerry Graveline spoke fondly of their late comrades.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-152577-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Clip-Kevin-Kluke-Gerry-Graveline-firefighter-award.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Clip-Kevin-Kluke-Gerry-Graveline-firefighter-award.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Clip-Kevin-Kluke-Gerry-Graveline-firefighter-award.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>The first winner of the award was Christopher Romain, who Kluke said had shown an interest in firefighting before he was old enough to join the department.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-152577-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Clip-Kevin-Kluke-Chris-Romain.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Clip-Kevin-Kluke-Chris-Romain.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Clip-Kevin-Kluke-Chris-Romain.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Several other members of the department were recognized for their years of service as well:<\/p>\n<p>Scott Laporte, Scott Tubman, Cory Dubeau - 10 years<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Chief Gerry Graveline - 20 years<\/p>\n<p>Denis Dubeau - 30 years<\/p>\n<p>Pat Shea - 35 years<\/p>\n<p>Chief Kevin Kluke - 40 years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Campbell&#8217;s Bay-Litchfield Fire Department unveiled a new award in memory of three of their comrades who passed away in recent years. The award was presented at the organization&#8217;s\u00a0annual ball on Saturday May 6. The Firefighter of the Year award goes to a promising young member of the department with less than 10 years of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":152583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[6036,3342,675,4225],"radio":[239],"origine":[274,258,260],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152657,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152577\/revisions\/152657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152577"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=152577"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=152577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}