{"id":151645,"date":"2025-08-16T23:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T23:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/151645\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T23:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T23:01:10","slug":"los-angeles-county-firefighter-paramedic-dies-while-on-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/151645\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles County firefighter paramedic dies while on duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/generic-web-main.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article   <\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\"><strong>LOS ANGELES<\/strong> &#8211; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/los-angeles-county\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Los Angeles County<\/a> Fire Department is mourning the loss of one of its own.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">The department posted on social media over the weekend that firefighter paramedic Jerry Guzman had died.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">LA County Fire said Guzman&#8217;s last alarm was on Friday, August 15 and was last assigned to fire station 32 in Azusa.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Guzman was with the department and served the LA County community for 23 years, the department said on social media.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Below is a statement released by the county&#8217;s fire department on social media:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">&#8220;It is with a heavy heart the #LACoFD share the active-duty death of FFPM Jerry W. Guzman.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">FFPM Guzman was last assigned to FS 32 in Azusa. He faithfully served our Department &amp; communities for 23 years.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">We extend our deepest prayers &amp; condolences to the Guzman family. \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffd\ud83d\udc94\ud83d\udd4a&#8221;<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Officials did not specify which incident Guzman was responding to prior to his death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> This report used information provided by the Los Angeles County Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/los-angeles-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article LOS ANGELES &#8211; The Los Angeles County Fire Department is mourning the loss of one of its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":151646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,6080,5337,50,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-151645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-county","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115040936745888138","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}