{"id":6660,"date":"2018-11-29T13:53:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T21:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=6660"},"modified":"2018-11-29T13:58:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T21:58:54","slug":"media-event-to-mark-fire-engine-transfer-to-morelia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/media-event-to-mark-fire-engine-transfer-to-morelia\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Event to Mark Fire Engine Transfer to Morelia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">A media event at 3:30 pm tomorrow, Friday, November 30<sup><span style=\"font-size: small\">th<\/span><\/sup>, will mark the transfer of a fire engine from the Yakima Fire Department to Morelia, Mexico. It will be held at Yakima Fire Station No. 95, 807 E. Nob Hill Boulevard.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Yakima-Morelia Sister City Association (Y-MSCA) purchased the retired fire engine from the City of Yakima earlier this year. The association will have it transported to Morelia next week.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8220;I think this is a great opportunity to have these partners who help support emergency services in our sister city of Morelia,&#8221; said Yakima Fire Chief Aaron Markham.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Officials from the City of Yakima, City of Morelia, and Y-MSCA will be on hand for tomorrow&#8217;s event.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Yakima and Morelia&#8217;s sister city relationship dates back to May 1999, when the Yakima City Council passed a resolution that established Yakima and Morelia as sister cities.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The mission of the Y-MSCA, a non-profit organization, is to promote mutual understanding and the sharing of cultural diversity among citizens in the communities of Yakima and Morelia, which is the capital for the state of Michoac\u00e1n in central Mexico.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">For more about the Yakima Fire Department, visit <\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;font-weight: normal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yakimafire.com\/\">https:\/\/yakimafire.com\/<\/a><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"> or call 575-6060.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">For more about the Y-MSCA, visit <\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;font-weight: normal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakimamorelia.org\/\">http:\/\/www.yakimamorelia.org\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #222222;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;font-weight: normal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Fire-Engine-Transfer-News-Release.pdf\">Fire Engine Transfer &#8211; News Release<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A media event at 3:30 pm tomorrow, Friday, November 30th, will mark the transfer of a fire engine from the Yakima Fire Department to Morelia, Mexico. It will be held at Yakima Fire Station No. 95, 807 E. Nob Hill Boulevard. 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