{"id":13842,"date":"2024-03-01T10:05:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T15:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=13842"},"modified":"2024-03-01T10:05:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T15:05:49","slug":"hankenson-goes-full-time-with-pike-fd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/01\/hankenson-goes-full-time-with-pike-fd\/","title":{"rendered":"Hankenson goes full-time with Pike FD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bellmont High School graduate Caleb Hankenson has become a full-time firefighter with the Pike Township Fire Department in suburban Indianapolis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hankenson was one of seven members of Pike&#8217;s 2023 graduating class who, after a year of probation, became full-time merit firefighters with the department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They received recognition at a special ceremony held this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hankenson, 26, is a 2017 BHS grad, the son of Brigitte and Steve Hankenson of Decatur. The Indianapolis resident graduated from Ball State with a degree in Exercise Science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another Bellmont grad, Brian Hakes, 30, also an EMT, is a member of the Pike FD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pike Township Department, which covers 44 square miles on the northwest side of Indy, has 175 professional firefighters and medics working out of five stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com Bellmont High School graduate Caleb Hankenson has become a full-time firefighter with the Pike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-13842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-community"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/470F4CC660FF44C1B5DB95F6F9DE2CEB.jpg?fit=372%2C792&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}