{"id":44751,"date":"2021-09-11T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T03:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/lewis-arriola-fire-station-honors-9-11-first-responders\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:21:11","slug":"lewis-arriola-fire-station-honors-9-11-first-responders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/lewis-arriola-fire-station-honors-9-11-first-responders\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis-Arriola Fire Station honors 9\/11 first responders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=cfce630c-d692-4e29-bce7-504171f6cc3f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1583\" alt=\"Lewis-Arriola Fire Department\u2019s annual 9\/11 stair climb will take place at the station\u2019s training tower Saturday evening. Here, the second installment of the event is pictured.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Lewis-Arriola Fire Department\u2019s annual 9\/11 stair climb will take place at the station\u2019s training tower Saturday evening. Here, the second installment of the event is pictured.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and the Lewis-Arriola Fire Department station is hosting its annual 9\/11 tribute to honor those who lost their lives that day.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the sixth year the firefighters replicated the feat first responders faced as they climbed the burning World Trade Centers in New York City two decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>Participants, many adorned in full gear with airpacks, will climb the equivalent of 110 stories at the station\u2019s three-story training tower in remembrance of the 412 first responders who died that day \u2013 343 firefighters, 60 police officers, eight EMTS and a fire patrolman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a remembrance tribute just so people can can feel what they\u2019d gone through \u2013 to a point,\u201d said Lewis-Arriola Fire Chief George Deavers.<\/p>\n<p>They will start their climb at 8 p.m. at 22145 County Road S, and the public is invited to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Deavers said his son, along with volunteer firefighter Levi Hill, first had the idea years ago. They wanted to do something in honor of 9\/11 and had the idea to climb football field bleachers.<\/p>\n<p>From there, the event grew.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next year, everybody did it,\u201d Deavers said. \u201cWe invited other departments and then we moved into our tower after that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters from throughout Montezuma County participate in the tribute, as well as deputies from the Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Office, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters will climb 110 stories Saturday evening in honor of those who died responding to the 9\/11 terrorist attacks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,167,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-44751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-local-news-lead","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86214,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44751\/revisions\/86214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44751"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=44751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}