{"id":2426,"date":"2023-04-17T01:42:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T01:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/?p=2426"},"modified":"2023-04-17T01:42:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T01:42:51","slug":"dc-fire-crews-help-retired-firefighter-celebrate-his-104th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/2023\/04\/17\/dc-fire-crews-help-retired-firefighter-celebrate-his-104th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"DC fire crews help retired firefighter celebrate his 104th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 DC Fire and EMS crews helped one of their own celebrate a major milestone. Harry Kelly is the fire department\u2019s most senior retired firefighter and he just turned 104 years old.<\/p>\n<p>His department brotherhood helped Kelly celebrate with balloons, signs and fire engines in his Northwest D.C. neighborhood. The fire department tweeted a video of the celebration on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly was a firefighter in the District from 1948 to 1971. Before that he served in World War II. A life well lived as a dedicated public servant. Kelly said he feels good at 104 years old, and even had the chance to get back behind the wheel of a firetruck during the birthday festivities.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbor Don Lucas said Mr. Kelly still shovels snow in the neighborhood and won\u2019t accept help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time I try to help he shoos me away. He would rather do the snow. I can\u2019t even get my 15-year-old son to do the snow,\u201d Lucas said. DC Fire and EMS Chief John A. Donnelley Sr. was also on hand for the celebration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an honor to meet him and he is a legend in this city,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>If you have something you\u2019d like to share, email us at GetUplifted@wusa9.com or contact Allison Seymour on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Be sure to subscribe to the Get Up DC newsletter, where we\u2019ll be sharing an uplifting story every morning as well.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DC fire crews help oldest retired firefighter celebrate his 104th birthday | Get Uplifted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n3ls2j80Jvg\" width=\"561\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 DC Fire and EMS crews helped one of their own celebrate a major milestone. Harry Kelly is the fire department\u2019s most senior retired firefighter and he just turned 104 years old. His department brotherhood helped Kelly celebrate with balloons, signs and fire engines in his Northwest D.C. neighborhood. The fire department tweeted a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daily-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions\/2428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}