{"id":282435,"date":"2010-02-05T12:30:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T17:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=16414"},"modified":"2010-02-05T12:30:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T17:30:31","slug":"hoffman-estates-fire-chief-honored-for-35-years-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/282435","title":{"rendered":"Hoffman Estates fire chief honored for 35 years of service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16507\" title=\"hoffman-estates-fire-chief-robert-gorvett\" src=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/hoffman-estates-fire-chief-robert-gorvett.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"192\" \/>Hoffman Estates Trustee Gary Pilafas gently reminded the audience at Monday&#8217;s board meeting that he was only 6 years old when Fire Chief Robert Gorvett joined the fire department.<\/p>\n<p>Gorvett briefly left the chamber and wasn&#8217;t present for the good-natured ribbing from Pilafas.<\/p>\n<p>The village board recognized Gorvett on Monday, marking his 35 years working full time for the village. His wife Laurie and a group of his fellow firefighters attended in support. <span id=\"more-16414\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gorvett actually started working for the village more than 35 years ago. He began as a volunteer firefighter in 1972 and joined full time in 1975.<\/p>\n<p>After numerous titles, including a couple stints as acting fire chief, he was given the permanent title as chief in 2008. He&#8217;s the 13th fire chief in Hoffman Estates&#8217; history.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on <a title=\"Hoffman Estates fire chief honored for 35 years of service\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyherald.com\/story\/?id=356459&amp;src=143\"  rel='nofollow'>DailyHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/NbuBq6Cnc6n7yqrxOypIcHssNfI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/NbuBq6Cnc6n7yqrxOypIcHssNfI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/NbuBq6Cnc6n7yqrxOypIcHssNfI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/NbuBq6Cnc6n7yqrxOypIcHssNfI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=YATIupDfTwU:twoTD_w297I:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=YATIupDfTwU:twoTD_w297I:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=YATIupDfTwU:twoTD_w297I:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=YATIupDfTwU:twoTD_w297I:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/YATIupDfTwU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoffman Estates Trustee Gary Pilafas gently reminded the audience at Monday&#8217;s board meeting that he was only 6 years old when Fire Chief Robert Gorvett joined the fire department. Gorvett briefly left the chamber and wasn&#8217;t present for the good-natured ribbing from Pilafas. The village board recognized Gorvett on Monday, marking his 35 years working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}