{"id":10283,"date":"2011-09-29T14:53:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T18:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10283"},"modified":"2011-10-05T08:28:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T12:28:40","slug":"fire-chief-promotes-first-black-female-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10283","title":{"rendered":"Fire Chief Promotes First Black Female Captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY IRIS B. HOLTON<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Sentinel City Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, a promotion ceremony for Tampa Firefighters will take place at the Firefighters Museum, 720 E. Zack Street, at 2 p.m. During the ceremony, the first African American female firefighter will be elevated to the rank of Captain in the department.<\/p>\n<p>Fire <strong>Chief Tom Forward<\/strong> has promoted more than 65 employees since he became the Fire Chief. Five African Americans were among the most recent promotions.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chief Forward<\/strong> has promoted <strong>Ms. Barbara Tripp<\/strong> to the rank of Captain. <strong>Captain Tripp<\/strong> is the first African American woman to attain the rank of Captain in the history of the department. She is a 14-year veteran.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chief Forward<\/strong> also promoted<strong> Jonnie C. Benniefield<\/strong> to the rank of District Chief. Chief Benniefield is a 23-year veteran with the department.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guye M. Bass<\/strong>, a 10-year veteran and <strong>Rodger M. Shipp<\/strong>, an 8-year veteran, were promoted to the rank of Driver-Engineer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jaisen J. Randolph<\/strong> joined the Tampa Fire Department 4 years ago. He is now a Paramedic with the department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor On Friday, a promotion ceremony for Tampa Firefighters will take place at the Firefighters Museum, 720 E. Zack Street, at 2 p.m. During the ceremony, the first African American female firefighter will be elevated to the rank of Captain in the department. Fire Chief Tom Forward has promoted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}